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shock therapies

shock therapies is the plural of shock therapy.

Meaning of shock therapy

Noun

shock therapy (usually uncountable, plural shock therapies)

  1. (usually) The use of a single, very large dose of a medicine.
  2. (informal, usually) A government policy of a sudden release of price controls and immediate trade liberalization within a country.
  3. (usually) Synonym of electroconvulsive therapy.

Questions about shock therapies

What is shock therapies the plural of?
Shock therapies is the plural of shock therapy.

Words near shock therapies in the dictionary

  1. shock stalled
  2. shock stalling
  3. shock stallings
  4. shock stalls
  5. shock tactics
  6. shock therapies
  7. shock therapy
  8. shock to the system
  9. shock trauma
  10. shock treatment
  11. shock treatments

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