What is another word for jolts?

Pronunciation: [d͡ʒˈə͡ʊlts] (IPA)

Jolts can be described as sudden, rapid movements that cause a quick, unexpected shock to the body or an object. Other synonyms for jolts include jars, shocks, judders, jerks, and tremors. These words all convey a sense of abrupt motion that is often uncomfortable or unsettling. Jars suggest a harsh, rough impact, while shocks emphasize the suddenness and intensity of the movement. Judders and jerks both imply a shaky or unsteady motion, and tremors suggest a slight, quivering movement. Whether describing a bumpy ride or an unexpected surprise, these synonyms for jolts provide a range of ways to convey the experience of sudden and disruptive motion.

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Usage examples for Jolts

He jolts me until I am sore,-not quite as easy as my thoroughbred, Jefferson.
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
Cassandra was careful not to be caught looking at her, and their conversation was so prosaic that were it not for certain jolts and jerks between the sentences, as if the mind were kept with difficulty to the rails, Mrs. Milvain herself could have detected nothing of a suspicious nature in what she overheard.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
The riding of one another by cows is attended by such severe muscular exertion, jars, jolts, mental excitement, and gravitation of the womb and abdominal organs backward that it may easily cause abortion in a predisposed animal.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler

Famous quotes with Jolts

  • Words are not deeds. In published poems — we think first of Eliot's "Jew", words edge closer to deeds. In Céline's anti-Semitic textbooks, words get as close to deeds as words can well get. Blood libels scrawled on front doors are deed. In a correspondence, words are hardly even words. They are soundless cries and whispers, "gouts of bile," as Larkin characterized his political opinions, ways of saying, "Gloomy old sod, aren't I?" Or more simply, "Grrr." Correspondences are self-dramatizations. Above all, a word in a letter is never your last word on any subject. There was no public side to Larkin's prejudices, and nothing that could be construed as a racist — the word suggest a system of thought, rather than an absence of thought, which would be closer to the reality, closer to the jolts and twitches of self response.
    Martin Amis
  • Fiction is unlike reality because it has an end, a conclusion, which allows the characters to stroll happily, or perhaps simply more wisely, out through the climax into the epilogue. But life is a tapestry. It has no satisfactory end. There are simply periods of acceleration and delay, victory and frustration, seasoned with periodic jolts of reality.
    Jack McDevitt
  • The oaks and maples outside the window of his room are wild men with their heads on fire. He shuts his eyes, but the view inside his eyelids is the same nightmare. His nerves are lancinating cables under his skin that send jolts of electricity to his muscles. He is so tremulous that when he brings a glass of water to his lips, he has spilled most of it before he can take a sip. He pukes his insides out, till he imagines the lining of his stomach is smooth and shiny like a copper pot. But the impulse to run is gone. He has put one or perhaps two oceans between him and the place he flees.
    Abraham Verghese

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