Jolted
[dʒəultid]
Definition
(adj.) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock; 'retrieved his named from her jolted memory'; 'the accident left her badly shaken' .
(adj.) bumped or shaken jerkily; 'the jolted passengers' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Jolt
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Examples
- What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They have rumbled through the streets, and jolted over the stones, and at length reach the wide and open country. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The moment he saw Gudrun something jolted in his soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A blinding flash went over his brain, his body jolted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The country roads seem to be not very good in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The hackney-coach jolted along Fleet Street, as hackney-coaches usually do. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Old habits, old restraints, the hand of inherited order, plucked back the bewildered mind which passion had jolted from its ruts. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Every day, through the stony streets, the tumbrils now jolted heavily, filled with Condemned. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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