jolt

1. VERB

If something jolts or if something jolts it, it moves suddenly and quite violently.

• The wagon jolted again.    
• The train jolted into motion.     
• They were working frantically in the fear that an aftershock would jolt the house again.

2. VERB

If something jolts someone, it gives them an unpleasant surprise or shock.    

• A stinging slap across the face jolted her.
  

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3. To put into a specified condition by or as if by a blow: 

• "Now and then he jolted a nodding reader awake by inserting a witty paragraph" Walter Blair.
  

4. To make suddenly active or effective: 

• The remark jolted my memory.
  

5. To disturb suddenly and severely; stun: 

• She was jolted by the betrayal of her trusted friend.
  

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