jolt.
To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
Meaning & usage
To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.
To knock sharply
To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
I jolted her out of complacency.
To shock emotionally.
Her untimely death jolted us all.
To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
The car jolted along the stony path.
Where this word comes from
Perhaps from joll (“to knock, strike”) + -t (frequentative suffix).
An act of jolting.
A surprise or shock.
A long prison sentence.
A narcotic injection.
The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
Where this word comes from
Perhaps from joll (“to knock, strike”) + -t (frequentative suffix).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.