Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
jolt .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bumped or shaken jerkily
- adjective disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock
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Examples
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When you advise a woman to dally with men because they might, in exchange, arrange for that woman “to buy everything from electric blankets to hi-fi records wholesale,” then you have violated the signal code of people who were jolted from the middle class in the 1930s: their ardent desire to behave decently because, for a time in their lives, that behavior was all that separated them from the Helen Gurleys of the world.
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When you advise a woman to dally with men because they might, in exchange, arrange for that woman “to buy everything from electric blankets to hi-fi records wholesale,” then you have violated the signal code of people who were jolted from the middle class in the 1930s: their ardent desire to behave decently because, for a time in their lives, that behavior was all that separated them from the Helen Gurleys of the world.
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When you advise a woman to dally with men because they might, in exchange, arrange for that woman “to buy everything from electric blankets to hi-fi records wholesale,” then you have violated the signal code of people who were jolted from the middle class in the 1930s: their ardent desire to behave decently because, for a time in their lives, that behavior was all that separated them from the Helen Gurleys of the world.
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The word jolted my memory of the TV program from a few weeks earlier, and raised the question: is it possible to be accidentally hypnotised?
Life of Brian: 2005
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The word jolted my memory of the TV program from a few weeks earlier, and raised the question: is it possible to be accidentally hypnotised?
look into my eyes . . . . . . accidental beneficial hypnotherapy and more 2005
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Rachel Belmore was jolted from a dream, awash with dread.
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The name jolted them back to the urgencies of the moment.
The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983
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Half an hours cautious questioning decided each of us that the other was safe; and then for hours, while the train jolted slowly through the pitch-black night, sitting up in our bunks with bottles of beer handy, we damned the British Empiredamned it from the inside, intelligently and intimately.
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Behind them the long baggage train jolted slowly onwards, now floundering axle deep through mud, now rocking perilously over stumps or stones.
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917
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THE RING OF MY seven thirty wake-up call jolted me.
Holly Would Dream Karen Quinn 2008
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