shock vs upset

shock

verb
  • To cause to be emotionally shocked; to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset. 

  • To give an electric shock to. 

  • To subject to a shock wave or violent impact. 

  • To add a chemical to (a swimming pool) to moderate the chlorine levels. 

  • To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook. 

noun
  • A state of distress following a mental or emotional disturbance. 

  • Electric shock, a sudden burst of electrical energy hitting a person or animal. 

  • Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements. 

  • A shock absorber (typically in the suspension of a vehicle). 

  • A chemical added to a swimming pool to moderate the chlorine levels. 

  • An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook. 

  • A sudden or violent mental or emotional disturbance. 

  • A sudden, heavy impact. 

  • A tuft or bunch of something, such as hair or grass. 

  • Something so surprising that it is stunning. 

  • A discontinuity arising in the solution of a partial differential equation. 

  • A shock wave. 

adj
  • Causing intense surprise, horror, etc.; unexpected and shocking. 

upset

verb
  • To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • To be upset or knocked over. 

  • To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends. 

  • To tip or overturn (something). 

  • To defeat unexpectedly. 

  • To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end. 

  • To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something). 

adj
  • Angry, distressed, or unhappy. 

  • Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit. 

noun
  • An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U. 

  • The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control. 

  • An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win. 

  • An overturn. 

  • Disturbance or disruption. 

  • An upset stomach. 

How often have the words shock and upset occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )