(v. i.) To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.
(v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.
(n.) A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tracks were almost exclusively written on tour, including this jolting number, with an additional four tracks recorded in the studio.
(2) So here’s hoping that the electricity of Paris will have given Ms Rudd the sort of shock that might jolt her from half-decent intentions into a real and lasting commitment to act.
(3) She writes: Reassurances from the US that short-term measures will be instigated to avert the upcoming debt-ceiling deadline have given European equity markets a jolt upwards, helping to stem some of the risk aversion of the past few days.
(4) Although much has been made, since the referendum, of results showing that areas with little migration were most opposed to it, we should not underestimate the jolt that accompanied the effects of free movement within a newly enlarged European Union.
(5) Updated at 2.10pm BST 1.47pm BST Over to America, where the latest productivity figures confirm that the US economy took a nasty jolt over the winter, when bad weather gripped the country.
(6) The chemical disaster in Bhopal jolted activist groups around the world into renewing their demands for right-to-know legislation granting them broader access to information about hazardous technologies.
(7) In "jolting" mice aged 4 months or more there was a marked loss of Purkinje cells and spheroids were present on Purkinje cell axons.
(8) The chief executive, Simon Lim, says Tan was jolted by the manager's announcement that he would seek backing from the board for strengthening.
(9) But we need a jolt at a national level to regain control of our destiny," Ayrault said.
(10) The legislation was passed by the House foreign affairs committee last February but it was stalled until Pyongyang jolted the world by setting off an underground nuclear bomb test.
(11) They had endured a jolting four-hour journey from their village of Rorabad, along roads sometimes seeded with Taliban bombs, but still Maraz Gul considers herself relatively lucky compared with neighbours whose children are also wasting away.
(12) The central bank needs to convince them that it will do “whatever it takes,” as Draghi put it in July 2012, to jolt the economy out of its deflationary lethargy.
(13) On the bare floor of an open-backed military truck, Ariel Sharon's flag-draped coffin jolted along a rough track to a hilltop spot overlooking his ranch on the edge of the Negev desert, where he was laid to rest next to his beloved wife.
(14) "I saw him jolt back and put his hands on his face and there was blood there.
(15) They also believe that the prime minister has ceded too much ground to Nick Clegg after the Liberal Democrats were jolted by their heavy defeat in the AV referendum in May.
(16) Unions say it was the balloting of their members that jolted the government into improving its offer at a late stage, and that some scheme-specific talks have not taken place since the offer was announced.
(17) The breaks between these sections jolt us back in time to see the causes of consequences we have already observed.
(18) Reformers finally have the jolt in the arm they needed to prevent the positive impact of Snowden’s revelations dribbling away.
(19) A magnitude 6.6 aftershock struck an hour later and there were smaller jolts in the region for hours.
(20) But his words are jolting and lucid as he recalls a terrifying ordeal.
Judder
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We hurtled into Barcelona at speeds that should have torn Eglantine's juddering Peugeot 205 apart.
(2) An unlikely coalition of sworn enemies, who had campaigned together under the Better Together slogan of “No Thanks”, came to a juddering and messy end as the UK parties bickered over future voting rights of MPs at Westminster.
(3) Emma Sheppard, with an accomplice, brought three police cars to a juddering halt on New Year’s Eve 2014 in Bristol by puncturing their tyres with the crude device made of plywood and nails.
(4) There’s no bitterness or vitriol on show here, musically at least, with Bowman’s laidback vocals gliding serenely over a juddering, stop-start beat that eventually disintegrates.
(5) Even if he can judder on, the injury done will diminish him further.
(6) The scramble for homes in London that helped push up prices in some areas by more than a third in 12 months has come to a juddering halt, according to estate agents around the capital.
(7) Southampton's blistering start to the season is in danger of juddering to a halt as Christmas approaches.
(8) The smell was stronger and the ground, the air juddered, not only in time to its huge steps.
(9) Steven Gerrard’s involvement in these fixtures juddered to an end when he embedded his studs in Ander Herrera’s ankle last March .
(10) That Was the Week That Was and Not So Much A Programme, More A Way Of Life had both come to a juddering halt when the BBC lost its nerve in the face of establishment pressure.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest CCTV footage released by police of Sheppard and her accomplice laying the tyre-spikes on the road outside the police station, which brought three patrol cars to a juddering halt.
(12) Halfway through it speeds up again and starts pummelling and juddering, accelerating towards oblivion like Steppenwolf dying for some red meat.
(13) Then on in juddering formation through a tray of scattered breadcrumbs and into a vast vat of boiling oil for 30 seconds.
(14) That renaissance was brought to a juddering halt by Fukushima in March 2011, when an earthquake and tsunami hit the power plant, causing enormous damage and a release of radioactive materials.
(15) An unlikely coalition of sworn enemies came to a juddering and messy end as the UK parties bickered Alexander says it was important to change stance because a definitive no was the natural conclusion of further analysis by the Treasury.
(16) At the high point of his five-year sabbatical from South Yorkshire police, he faced the match official's dilemma of whether to send a player off in a showpiece game as a succession of Dutchmen – Mark van Bommel especially – stretched his authority with persistent and bone-juddering fouls.
(17) A period of selling by central banks from the late 1990s juddered to a halt in 2008, but not before the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland had unloaded billions of pounds worth of the metal.
(18) If I was a betting man I'd say the quarter-finals were likely to be the place where it all comes to a juddering halt.
(19) Quite often you feel invincible – right up to the moment when a car pulls out of a driveway and you are forced into a thigh-juddering halt.
(20) Economic shakes judder the foundations of the western world as dangerously as these experimental results would shake the fabric of science, should they be confirmed.