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jolt

/d͡ʒoʊlt/

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What does jolt mean?

verb

  1. To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
  2. To knock sharply
  3. To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
More meanings (7)

verb

  1. To shock emotionally.
  2. To shake; to move with a series of jerks.

noun

  1. An act of jolting.
  2. A surprise or shock.
  3. (slang) A long prison sentence.
  4. (slang) A narcotic injection.
  5. The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.

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IPA pronunciation

/d͡ʒoʊlt/

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The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterward the motion was easy enough.
Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #829
Almost at the instant of impact I turned my bows upward, and then with a shattering jolt we were in collision.
Edgar Rice BurroughsThe gods of MarsProject Gutenberg ebook #64
More book examples (3)
Near the post-office of Gwynder, the coachman had been thrown from his seat by a violent jolt, and broken his leg.
Samuel SmilesThe Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great BritainProject Gutenberg ebook #939
One day, through an extra jolt of the car, a bottle of phosphorus broke on the floor, and the car took fire.
John MunroHeroes of the TelegraphProject Gutenberg ebook #979
I read this paragraph over for the first time in quite a while, and I came with a jolt to its last words.
Upton SinclairThe Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic InterpretationProject Gutenberg ebook #1558