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shockproof

shockproof adjective: made sturdily enough to withstand knocks and shocks without being damaged.

Adjective

shockproof (comparative more shockproof, superlative most shockproof)

  1. Made sturdily enough to withstand knocks and shocks without being damaged.
    • My shockproof watch stood up to everything it reasonably could be expected to and kept ticking; but dropping it down an elevator shaft is asking too much.
  2. Protected from imparting electric shocks.

Verb

shockproof (third-person singular simple present shockproofs, present participle shockproofing, simple past and past participle shockproofed)

  1. (transitive) To protect from imparting electric shocks.

Forms of shockproof

Adjective
comparativemore shockproof
superlativemost shockproof
Verb
third-person singular presentshockproofs
present participleshockproofing
past participleshockproofed
pastshockproofed

Origin of shockproof

From shock + -proof.

Questions about shockproof

What does shockproof mean?
Shockproof means made sturdily enough to withstand knocks and shocks without being damaged.
What part of speech is shockproof?
Shockproof can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near shockproof in the dictionary

  1. Shockley-Queisser limit
  2. Shockleys
  3. shocklike
  4. shockpeakon
  5. shockpeakons
  6. shockproof
  7. shockproofed
  8. shockproofing
  9. shockproofs
  10. shocks
  11. shocks and awes

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