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jolt
noun 
  1. An act of jolting.
  2. A surprise or shock.
Translations: 
    verb 
    1. (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
    The bus jolted its passengers.
    1. (transitive) To knock sharply; to deal a blow to.
    2. (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert; as, to jolt someone out of complacency
    3. (transitive) To shock emotionally.
    Her untimely death jolted us all.
    1. (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
    The bus jolted along the stony path.
    Translations: 
    • German: holpern, rí¼tteln
      (trans-mid)
      (trans-bottom)
    Etymology: Maybe from jollen.

         
     
      

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