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Meaning of shockable in English:

shockable

Pronunciation /ˈʃɒkəb(ə)l/

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adjective

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‘They take you back to a time when it was still possible to be transported into another world - a time when you half-believed in magic, and remained infinitely shockable.’
  • ‘A reliable narrator, I would suggest, is an intelligent, shockable, conscientious and perceptive, human being.’
  • ‘In front of as many shockable adults as possible.’
  • ‘For the less shockable audience of today, particularly one with a core of depraved Oxford students, this play presses all the right buttons.’
  • ‘In the experimental group, 72 patients with a shockable rhythm were initially shocked by first responders and 85 patients by the ambulance personnel.’
  • ‘She's also known enough not to need that kind of publicity - plus the European art scene isn't as easily shockable as the American one anyway.’