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- verb Present participle of
judder .
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Examples
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Upon release the man stood back a step and Geraint fell to the floor in juddering spasms.
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The refresh rate is only 60 hertz, so the blurry 'juddering' effect is occasionally an issue when you're watching fast-moving sports, but it's perfectly fine for most other applications.
Forbes.com: News Liam McCabe 2009
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Her shattered rib cage began to move with sudden, juddering movements as her damaged body struggled to continue to function.
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As the national policy forum assembles this weekend in Wrexham, there is a need both to overhaul juddering institutions and to reset the intellectual route.
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It helps that they have become a momentous live band, their rockier tracks sounding like juddering juggernauts.
Elbow – review 2011
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Unfortunately, it only moved a yard or two before juddering to a halt.
Gyles Brandreth Answers Questions about the Oscar Wilde Mysteries 2010
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The resultant book, "VHS: Absurd, Odd, and Ridiculous Relics from the Videotape Era" Running Press, $14 has just been published, and to celebrate that fact, we present a rewind to the days when pausing meant juddering images, tapes would spool inside machines, and video rental stores were our YouTube.
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You simply lie there, trying to force relaxation, but instead there is only anxiety juddering your bones.
Portrait of a Sunday Afternoon Ann-Marie Martino 2011
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As the national policy forum assembles this weekend in Wrexham, there is a need both to overhaul juddering institutions and to reset the intellectual route.
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But that's mostly down to the first quarter's frenetic pace, with growth tailing off and then juddering next year.
Germany Happy Paying Up to Keep Expansion on Track Alen Mattich 2011
chained_bear commented on the word juddering
"The humped mound of the beaver lodge was reflected in still water, and on the far bank she could see the agitated judderings of a couple of willow saplings, evidently in the process of being consumed."
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 603
February 1, 2010
GHibbs commented on the word juddering
My adjectival use: 'The juddering bus was most uncomfortable.'
August 22, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word juddering
Dear chained_bear,
You are unfathomably awesome.
Sincerely yours,
ruzuzu
August 22, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word juddering
Me? No, no. You must mean Mrs. Gabaldon.
August 23, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word juddering
Well, her too. But you always have such great citations. Thanks, bear.
August 23, 2011
reesetee commented on the word juddering
Hey! Stop looking at Chained's citations!
Oh, wait.
August 24, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word juddering
Chained's juddering citations are fantastic. I can't help it.
August 24, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word juddering
*judders citations in ruzuzu's face*
Sorry. Don't know what came over me.
August 24, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word juddering
They're so precise and thorough!
August 24, 2011
reesetee commented on the word juddering
Well, if you're going to judder them around, Chained....I mean, really.
August 29, 2011