Thesaurus / shell-shock
FEEDBACKsynonyms for shell-shock
synonyms for shell-shock
- battle fatigue
- delayed-stress disorder
- delayed-stress syndrome
- post-traumatic stress syndrome
- PTSD
- PTSS
- railway spine
- shell shock
- trauma
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How to use shell-shock in a sentence
Off flew the shell, seven miles it flew; over the Turkish Army from one sea into another.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONHe conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OPERAJOHN H. SWABY (AKA "SCRICI")Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONLike an electric shock, the well-known chords of the Tragala aroused his hearers—every one crowded round the singer.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSThe violent shock dazed Malcolm for a second, but all might yet have been well were it not for an unavoidable accident.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYFrom pre-natal days I was destined for the railway service, as an oyster to its shell.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWIf one could languish through life in the shell of a mere beauty that life would be a good deal simpler proposition than it is.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONYes, to-morrow we attack again: I have men enough now but very, very little shell.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONThe shell question is serious although, in this respect, thank Heavens, the French are quite well found.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONShe was a woman of too much natural and acquired poise to remain askew under any shock.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON