shock absorber

Even rigid robots rely on some soft components, such as foot pads that serve as shock absorbers or flexible springs to store and release energy.

Those disks act as shock absorbers between the bones in the spine and a herniation happens when a piece of those disks breaks through its casing and irritates nerves in the area.

Joblessness is exacerbated by the use of the informal sector as a shock absorber.

Cars with electronically adjustable shock absorbers can also change the ride and handling characteristics in different drive modes.

Instead, it becomes a shock absorber, leaving the springing action to your joints and tissues and potentially leading to injury.

Citizens were watching in shock from above on the subway station.

But fans still feel the death was a last-minute decision made for shock value rather than to serve the story.

Shock at what the government considers dangerous and high risk could be read across social media.

She lost control of her bladder as she crouched in a corner, shaking, and unable to move her body due to the shock.

Some were silent from shock, others giddy and smiling as they boarded the U.S. Air Force C-130s.

Like an electric shock, the well-known chords of the Tragala aroused his hearers—every one crowded round the singer.

The violent shock dazed Malcolm for a second, but all might yet have been well were it not for an unavoidable accident.

She was a woman of too much natural and acquired poise to remain askew under any shock.

He feared to shock her by the sudden mention of the Senora's death; yet that would harm her less than continued anxiety.

Were he a young man, they could save him by cutting off his leg high up, but as it is he would not stand the shock.