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heatshock

heatshock is the alternative form of heat shock.

Meaning of heat shock

Noun

heat shock (countable and uncountable, plural heat shocks)

  1. The response of an organism to a rapid rise in temperature

Verb

heatshock (third-person singular simple present heatshocks, present participle heatshocking, simple past and past participle heatshocked)

  1. To subject to a heat shock

Forms of heatshock

Noun
pluralheatshocks
Verb
third-person singular presentheatshocks
present participleheatshocking
past participleheatshocked
pastheatshocked

Questions about heatshock

What does heatshock mean?
Heatshock means to subject to a heat shock.
What is heatshock the alternative form of?
Heatshock is the alternative form of heat shock.
What part of speech is heatshock?
Heatshock is a verb.
What is the past tense of heatshock?
The past tense of heatshock is heatshocked.

Words near heatshock in the dictionary

  1. heats up
  2. heatseeker
  3. heatseekers
  4. heatshield
  5. heatshields
  6. heatshock
  7. heatshocked
  8. heatshocking
  9. heatshocks
  10. heatsick
  11. heatsink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heatshock (page history and authors); heat shock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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