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jolt1 verbjolt2 noun joltjolt1 /dʒəʊlt $ dʒoʊlt/ verb  jolt1Origin: 1500-1600 Perhaps from joll ‘to hit’ (15-19 centuries) + jot ‘to knock against’ (16-19 centuries) VERB TABLEjolt |
Present | I, you, we, they | jolt | | he, she, it | jolts | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | jolted | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have jolted | | he, she, it | has jolted | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had jolted | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will jolt | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have jolted |
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Present | I | am jolting | | he, she, it | is jolting | | you, we, they | are jolting | Past | I, he, she, it | was jolting | | you, we, they | were jolting | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been jolting | | he, she, it | has been jolting | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been jolting | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be jolting | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been jolting |
- Everyone was alarmed when the elevator jolted to a halt.
- He ran down the hill, the backpack jolting from side to side on his back.
- Our coach jolted and stopped. Then it started again.
- Their house had been jolted right off its foundation.
- Vic was jolted awake by at least five explosions.
- Father Gannon added, his sudden pronged laughter jolting up her spine.
- He thought it was a twig breaking but then something jolted his memory.
- It was not the phone that jolted Polly so completely from her dreams, but fear.
- Long before morning, she was jolted awake by sounds outside her room.
- My lurching heart jolts me awake.
- Only to have your memory jolted by a loud and indignant beep.
- Second, the other Lakers will be jolted from their funk by the appearance of Magic.
- The car jolted over the rubble past a machine, and the panic ceased.
when things shake► shake if something shakes , it makes very small quick movements from side to side or up and down: · Ed was playing his music so loud that the whole house shook.· Suddenly the ground beneath my feet began to shake.· The car slowed down, shook for a moment and then stopped. ► rattle to shake and repeatedly hit against something else, making a continuous noise: · The windows were rattling in the wind.· I woke up to the sound of cups and plates rattling, and knew that Dad was already up. ► wobble if something wobbles , it moves from side to side because it is not steady or not well balanced: · The chair wobbled under her weight and then fell over.· Jerry came in carrying a tray of glasses that were wobbling alarmingly. ► vibrate to shake continuously with very small, very fast movements, for example because of the effects of a very loud noise: · Some insects' wings vibrate so fast that the movement is invisible to the human eye.vibrate to: · Everything in the room was vibrating to the beat of the drum. ► shudder if something such as a piece of machinery or a vehicle shudders , it shakes uncontrollably with very small movements: · Our house was so close to the railway that you could feel it shudder every time a train went by.shudder to a halt (=shake a lot and then stop): · The train shuddered to a halt at the station. ► judder especially British if something judders , it shakes with small, quick movements, especially because something is stopping it moving freely or smoothly: · Jackson took his Land Rover off the track and it juddered over 15 metres of grass.· The elevator doors juddered open when we reached the fifth floor.judder to a halt (=shake a lot and then stop): · Something was obviously wrong with the car and eventually it just juddered to a halt. ► jolt to move up and down or from side to side with sudden large movements - use this especially about a vehicle or machine that is not working well or moving smoothly: · Our coach jolted and stopped. Then it started again.jolt along/over/through etc: · He ran down the hill, the backpack jolting from side to side on his back.jolt to a halt/stop: · Everyone was alarmed when the elevator jolted to a halt. ► something screeches/shudders/skids/jolts to a halt (=a vehicle stops very quickly and noisily – used for emphasis)· The car skidded to a halt and three men jumped out. 1[intransitive, transitive] to move suddenly and roughly, or to make someone or something move in this way SYN jerk: We jolted along rough wet roads through an endless banana plantation.2[transitive] to give someone a sudden shock or surprise: The phone jolted him awake.jolt somebody into/out of something It jolted me into making the decision to quit. Her sharp words seemed to jolt him out of his depression.jolt1 verbjolt2 noun joltjolt2 noun [countable usually singular]  - a jolt of caffeine
- electric jolts
- The tax laws may be a severe jolt to the economy.
- The train stopped with a sudden jolt.
- But in a way what happened last season gave us a necessary jolt.
- But then, recovering from the jolt, he begins to think not.
- He longed for each ice-cold burning jolt in his stomach.
- Her accusation in front of her family had made him coldly furious, she realised with a jolt.
- The query seems like a jolt of reality, following stories Mrs Clinton has been telling of her college days.
- The world economy was given a deflationary jolt.
- What is in some ways ironic is that a naive notion of necessity had already received a severe jolt from David Hume.
- With a jolt of self-knowledge Caroline registered the same feeling of dismay as at that cool withdrawal after their picnic.
► given ... a jolt The oil crisis has given the government quite a jolt. ► something screeches/shudders/skids/jolts to a halt (=a vehicle stops very quickly and noisily – used for emphasis)· The car skidded to a halt and three men jumped out. VERB► feel· And that was when, for the second time, Ronni felt a fierce jolt inside her.· Harry felt a jolt of breath pump out of his mouth.· Sarella felt a jolt through her entire body at the sight of him.· Suddenly, I feel an internal jolt, a direct hit to the core of the boat.· Suddenly she felt a jolt and her body was submerged underneath the mud. ► give· But in a way what happened last season gave us a necessary jolt.· Still, the thought gave me quite a jolt of pleasure.· The world economy was given a deflationary jolt.· Each of us carries an unreliable ankle for instance, and Tony had just given his a jolt.· She says before you were aware of it but until it happens, it really gives you such a jolt.· They gave him this little jolt of fun.· It gave him a nasty jolt, for a moment thinking it the very same dagger used to kill Lord Westbourne. ► receive· What is in some ways ironic is that a naive notion of necessity had already received a severe jolt from David Hume. 1a sudden shockjolt of Melanie experienced a jolt of surprise.with a jolt Henry sat up with a jolt. The oil crisis has given the government quite a jolt.2a sudden rough shaking movement: People felt the first jolt of the earthquake at about 8 am. |