JOLT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jolt mean? 

• JOLT (noun)
  The noun JOLT has 2 senses:

1. a sudden jarring impact

2. an abrupt spasmodic movement

  Familiarity information: JOLT used as a noun is rare.

• JOLT (verb)
  The verb JOLT has 2 senses:

1. move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion

2. disturb (someone's) composure

  Familiarity information: JOLT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOLT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sudden jarring impact

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

jar; jolt; jounce; shock

Context example:

all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers

Hypernyms ("jolt" is a kind of...):

blow; bump (an impact (as from a collision))

Derivation:

jolt (move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An abrupt spasmodic movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

jerk; jerking; jolt; saccade

Hypernyms ("jolt" is a kind of...):

motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)

Derivation:

jolt (move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion)

jolty (causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements)

• JOLT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jolt    ... he / she / it jolts   
Past simple: jolted   
Past participle: jolted   
-ing form: jolting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

jar; jolt

Hypernyms (to "jolt" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

jolt (an abrupt spasmodic movement)

jolt (a sudden jarring impact)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Disturb (someone's) composure

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

The audience was jolted by the play

Hypernyms (to "jolt" is one way to...):

disturb; trouble; upset (move deeply)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to jolt Sue

 Context examples 

You seem to have received unexpected news about money that jolted you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The country roads seem to be not very good in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I live like a man, I drink like a man—a jolt now an' again when I feel like it, an' that's all.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Back injuries can result from sports injuries, work around the house or in the garden, or a sudden jolt such as a car accident.

(Back Injuries, NIH)

The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterward the motion was easy enough.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At each end of the yard there did indeed hang the dark figure of a man, jolting and lurching with hideous jerkings of its limbs at every plunge and swoop of the galley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A surgical procedure in which a small, battery-powered device is placed in the chest wall to detect arrhythmias and correct them by delivering a jolt of electricity.

(Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Placement, NCI Thesaurus)

The next he knew, he was dimly aware that his tongue was hurting and that he was being jolted along in some kind of a conveyance.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Words used to describe 'sharp' feelings include 'like a knife,' 'like a spike,' 'jabbing,' or 'like jolts.'

(NPS - Tell Us How Sharp Your Pain Feels, NCI Thesaurus)

A battery-powered electrical impulse generator implanted in patients at risk of sudden cardiac death to detect cardiac arrhythmia and correct it by delivering a jolt of electricity.

(Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)