jolt

About 0.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To push or shake abruptly and roughly.

   The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.

2. verb To knock sharply
3. verb To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert

   I jolted her out of complacency.

4. verb To shock emotionally.

   Her untimely death jolted us all.

5. verb To shake; to move with a series of jerks.

   The car jolted along the stony path.

6. noun An act of jolting.
7. noun A surprise or shock.
8. noun A long prison sentence.

Similar words

jounce jerking jerk jar shake tremor quake rattle disturb bump

Often followed by

of to and the that in when as from

Word family

jolted jolter jolters joltier joltiest jolting jolts jolty