Definitions for shell-shocked
shell-shocked

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1. shell-shockedadjective

   Stunned or mentally unbalanced by prolonged stress such as experienced in combat or under fire (shell-fire); suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

2. shell-shockedadjective

   Confused as a result of a traumatic experience.

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1. shell-shocked

   Shell shock is a term coined in World War I by the British psychologist Charles Samuel Myers to describe the type of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) many soldiers were afflicted with during the war (before PTSD was termed). It is a reaction to the intensity of the bombardment and fighting that produced a helplessness appearing variously as panic and being scared, flight, or an inability to reason, sleep, walk or talk.During the war, the concept of shell shock was ill-defined. Cases of "shell shock" could be interpreted as either a physical or psychological injury, or as a lack of moral fibre. The term shell shock is still used by the United States’ Department of Veterans Affairs to describe certain parts of PTSD, but mostly it has entered into memory, and it is often identified as the signature injury of the war. In World War II and thereafter, diagnosis of "shell shock" was replaced by that of combat stress reaction, a similar but not identical response to the trauma of warfare and bombardment.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of shell-shocked in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of shell-shocked in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of shell-shocked in a Sentence

1. Stefan Worrall:

   The weakening of the Chinese RMB seems to have spooked the yen and by extension the Nikkei in an already nervous and shell-shocked market that's worried about dynamics both economic and geopolitical, in these last couple of days the yen has moved in a way that chartists have called a break from the weakening trend of Abenomics that we've seen for the past few years, and in that kind of environment the market becomes incredibly vulnerable to events like the RMB failing to stabilize.

2. Jean Tikaram:

   We don't really know where to go at this point, the first day or two we were a little bit shell-shocked and we weren't thinking further than get some water. Today, we got some water and got a bit of tinned fish so we're feeling elated. We've had a bath and we've brushed our teeth, so we're feeling amazing.

3. Kyle Ramsey:

   They lived through a very turbulent financial period when they saw their parents finances hurt by the (credit) crisis, they are shell-shocked by the market and keeping their cash in savings accounts.

4. Liam Howlett:

   Our brother Keith took his own life over the weekend. I'm shell shocked, fuckin' angry, confused and heart broken, r.I.P brother.

5. Sonia Sotomayor:

   Sometimes, I was shell shocked, other times I was just deeply, deeply sad, and many times, I did have a sense of despair about the direction my court was going.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shell-Shocked
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell-Shocked