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shock

3 adjective
     
shock3 [only before noun]
1 very surprising - used especially in news reports:
England's shock defeat by Luxembourg
2

shock tactics

methods of achieving what you want by deliberately shocking people:
Shock tactics are being used to stop drink drivers.
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