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It checks the heart rhythm and will only tell you to give a shock if it is needed.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2022

“They wanted to give a shock message today to show to everybody that they are serious about price stability.”

From BusinessWeek • Mar. 3, 2011

Zotto suru signifies "to cause a thrill" or "to give a shock," or "to make shiver;" and of a very beautiful person it is said "Zotto-suru hodo no bijin,"—meaning!

From The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories by Hearn, Lafcadio

Presently I inquired about Aniela's health, with a strange, troubled foreboding I might hear something which, though perfectly natural and in the order of things, would give a shock to my nerves.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

This seemed to give a shock to his constitution from which he never afterwards fully recovered.

From The History of Dartmouth College by Smith, Baxter Perry




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