What's the difference between dumbstruck and shocked?

Dumbstruck


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The crowd, if it heard, was puzzled, and I was dumbstruck with gratitude – Springsteen?
  • (2) When he admitted, reluctantly, that since his sister left home, it had felt to him as if a piece of the family was missing, I was dumbstruck.
  • (3) But Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told state TV channel Rossiya-24 he was “dumbstruck” by the reports of Putin’s alleged involvement.
  • (4) Exiled Chagos Islanders living in Britain and Mauritius have said they are "dumbstruck" by a European court ruling that it has no jurisdiction to examine their forced expulsion by the British government in the 1960s.
  • (5) Bloody hell" - dumbstruck after United's Treble victory in 1999.
  • (6) If you think addressing Oxbridge students and the staff of a national newspaper is an odd way to puff Nobody's Daughter, the first Hole album since 1998's million-selling Celebrity Skin, well, it's height of normality compared to the promotional campaign she undertook for her 2004 solo album America's Sweetheart, which reached a height of insanity with a cover feature in British rock magazine during which Love had a Brazilian wax in front of a dumbstruck journalist, poured a bottle of champagne over her head, then took off all her clothes and ran down Park Lane.
  • (7) I was dumbstruck when he offered his phone number with the suggestion to "ring us up if you're ever in London".
  • (8) ‘We thought, ‘This is the biggest thing in our lives, how can you not ask how we are doing?’’ But many friends were dumbstruck and didn’t know what to say.
  • (9) The Tory benches were left dumbstruck, desperately opening and closing their mouths like dying goldfish, while the Labour MPs looked as if they had seen a ghost.
  • (10) Goldstone was dumbstruck at the possibility that one individual, be he a Beatle or not, could single-handedly finance a project on this scale, but time was pressing and he was willing to listen to any offers, however crazy they sounded.

Shocked


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Shock

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
  • (2) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
  • (3) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
  • (4) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
  • (5) It was also shown that after a shock at 44 degrees C teratocarcinoma cells were able to accumulate anomalous amounts of hsp 70 despite hsp 70 synthesis inhibition.
  • (6) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).
  • (7) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
  • (8) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
  • (9) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
  • (10) It is unclear if the changes in high-energy phosphates during endotoxin shock cause irreversibility.
  • (11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
  • (12) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
  • (13) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
  • (14) Induction of both potential transcripts follows heat shock in vivo.
  • (15) Passive avoidance performance of HO-DIs was, indeed, influenced by the age of the subject at the time of testing; HO-DIs reentered the shock compartment sooner than HE at 35 days, but later than HE at 120 days.
  • (16) In positive patterning, elemental stimuli, A and B, were presented without an unconditioned stimulus while their compound, AB, was paired with electric shock.
  • (17) Instead, an antiarrhythmic drug should be administered and another shock of the same intensity that defibrillated the first time should be applied.
  • (18) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
  • (19) The aim of the present study was to explore the possible role of heat shock proteins in the manifestation of this heat resistance.
  • (20) Frequency and localization of spontaneous and induced by high temperature (37 degrees C) recessive lethal mutations in X-chromosome of females belonging to the 1(1) ts 403 strain defective in synthesis of heat-shock proteins (HSP) were studied.