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shock treatment

 noun
     
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shock treatment also shock therapy [uncountable]
1MH treatment of mental illness using powerful electric shocks
2 the use of extreme methods to change a system or solve a problem as quickly as possible - used especially in news reports:
the government's shock therapy economic programme
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