Rid
Rid verb - To set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers.
Shock
Shock verb - To cause an unpleasant surprise for.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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For extra cruelty, regardless of how you get rid of your spouse, you can return to your former father-in-law and claim their child has died; the shock of these news gives him a fatal heart attack.
Source: Shotgun Wedding -
He explains that a great evil is trying to escape from a dark realm, and the shock wave that rid the Mane 6 of their cutie marks was the evil trying to escape.
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Parodied in "The Unicorn and the Wasp", the Doctor concocts an impromptu cure from regular foodstuffs to help rid his (alien) body of cyanide poisoning, and the final element is "a shock".
Source: Intimate Healing
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