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Definition
rock2 Show phoneticsverb
1 MOVE [I,T] to move backwards and forwards or from side to side, or to make someone or something do this
She rocked back and forth on her chair.
He gently rocked the baby to sleep.
2 SHOCK [T] to shock a large number of people
[often passive] The country has been rocked by a series of drug scandals.
