jolt
/d͡ʒoʊlt/ verb C1- To push or shake abruptly and roughly. · The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.
- To knock sharply
- To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert · I jolted her out of complacency.
- To shock emotionally. · Her untimely death jolted us all.
- To shake; to move with a series of jerks. · The car jolted along the stony path.
He/she/it jolts · Past jolted · Past participle jolted · -ing form jolting
Verb forms
- Base form
- jolt
- He/she/it
- jolts
- Past
- jolted
- Past participle
- jolted
- -ing form
- jolting
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Maybe we just jolted it off between us.
Rachel felt that she had received a severe mental jolt.
“By the way, Mortimer,” said I as we jolted along the rough road, “I suppose there are few people living within driving distance of this whom you do not know?”
Now and then a jolt more violent than the rest caused him to open his eyes; then he felt that he was still being carried with great rapidity over the same country, thickly strewn with broken aqueducts, which looked like granite giants petrified while running a race.
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