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shock therapy

shock therapy noun: the use of a single, very large dose of a medicine.

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.

shock therapy meaning in Tamil and Kannada

shock therapy in Tamil

அதிர்ச்சி மருத்துவம், அதிர்ச்சி சிகிச்சை, உளப்பிணி அதிர்ச்சி ஊக்க சிகிச்சை

shock therapy in Kannada

ಆಘಾತ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ

Synonyms of shock therapy

Forms of shock therapy

pluralshock therapies

Origin of shock therapy

From shock + therapy. The medical sense first appears c. 1917 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Questions about shock therapy

What does shock therapy mean?
Shock therapy means the use of a single, very large dose of a medicine.
What is shock therapy in Tamil?
Shock therapy in Tamil is அதிர்ச்சி மருத்துவம், அதிர்ச்சி சிகிச்சை, உளப்பிணி அதிர்ச்சி ஊக்க சிகிச்சை. See Shock therapy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shock therapy?
Shock therapy is a noun.
What is the plural of shock therapy?
The plural of shock therapy is shock therapies.

Words near shock therapy in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shock therapy (page history and authors); shock therapy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shock therapy (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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