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We found 5 dictionaries that define the word shell shocks:

General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. shell shocks: Merriam-Webster
  2. shell shocks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. shell shocks: Vocabulary.com
  4. shell-shocks, shell shocks: Wiktionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shell shocks: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See shell_shock as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shell shock)

noun:  (figuratively) A stunning shock.
noun:  (uncountable) A psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle; it is not a current diagnosis in medicine, but it corresponds largely with the current diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.
noun:  A person with the condition.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shell, shock.
verb:  To stun or debilitate as by a shock.
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