jolt
Speech parts
1. jolt - Noun
2. jolt - Verb
Meaning
To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.
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.
A sudden shock or jerk; a jolting motion, as in a carriage moving over rough ground.
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The mind is its own place and in his inner life each of us lives the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another's minds and inoperative upon them.
I saw the loose tiller jolt hard to the side as the boat began to spin.
Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system.
People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.