(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.
Unnerve
Definition:
(v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bernie Sanders: I want to see major changes in the Democratic party But Clinton is still a comfortable favourite in polling at the national level and her team argued earlier that day that if she can shrink his lead to single digits in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, she will have blunted the surprise momentum that unnerved supporters when he came within a whisker of beating her in Iowa.
(3) Thereafter they both got so angry with one another they started adopting each other's pet phrases – "I won't be lectured to by..." – and there was the unnerving possibility they might just morph into a single, spluttering entity.
(4) In this fragile neighbourhood, surprises are always unnerving.
(5) You are lying down with your head in a noisy and tightfitting fMRI brain scanner, which is unnerving in itself.
(6) It's very unnerving to be a prisoner," he tells an English-speaking interviewer in one.
(7) For veterans of the women's movement there may be something unnerving about hearing the familiar slogans from Tory mouths – a sense that, as a female columnist lamented recently of Mensch, these late converts are "the wrong kind" of feminists.
(8) Yuval Shpungin fouled Hazard midway inside the Maccabi half and, with Rajkovic unnerved by the crowd wrestling their way towards the spot, Willian’s inswinging free-kick skipped into the corner of the net.
(9) China has unnerved investors because of an economic slowdown that Beijing seems incapable of steering properly.
(10) The US is to deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe as part of efforts to support eastern European members of the Nato alliance unnerved by Russia’s intervention in Ukraine .
(11) If the notion sounds odd, the reality is only slightly less unnerving than having a black-eyed dog call at your door.
(12) China syndrome: how the slowdown could spread to the Brics and beyond Read more Stock markets dived last week as the prospect of a rate rise combined with figures showing the Chinese economy growing at a slower pace than previously forecast unnerved investors.
(13) She had tried before but only got to page two, and had found it so unnerving that she had been unable to leave the house for three days.
(14) It wasn’t for fear he was going to do something awful to the child but I did think his presence was unnerving for some children.
(15) We can edit nature Andrea Crisanti Still, talk of “editing nature” will unnerve those who are naturally suspicious of such radical moves, and for whom the term “genetic modification” is an automatic red flag.
(16) The idea that people are watching me now is a bit unnerving, but I suppose it comes with the territory.
(17) There is this haunting look about him as he comes to terms with the fact he does not have long to live, yet there is this unnerving defiance there as well.” The composer sat for four difficult days in 1881, dying before the planned final sitting.
(18) Martin London Henllan, Denbighshire • Markets are “unnerved”, “market confidence is fast deteriorating”, “market expectations [or should that read speculations?]
(19) The feeling of being an imposter is definitely unnerving.
(20) In a twist that will further unnerve senior police officers, it emerged that Kennedy has asked the public relations agent Max Clifford to sell his story.