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adj. - Causing or characterized by bumpy irregular movements.

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Usage examples (32)
  • Four were taken out of the motor ambulances dead this week; the jolting is the last straw for the worst ones; it can't possibly be helped, "but it seems a pity."
  • The 'jolting' strategy is one that anyone can apply to their life.
  • The Keynesian approach to "jolting" the economy by throwing money at it has failed, as I and many others predicted.
  • They got out, being no more harmed than by the jolting.
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