I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sth screeches/shudders/skids/jolts to a halt (= a vehicle stops very quickly and noisily – used for emphasis )
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The car skidded to a halt and three men jumped out.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Everyone was alarmed when the elevator jolted to a halt.
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He ran down the hill, the backpack jolting from side to side on his back.
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Our coach jolted and stopped. Then it started again.
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Their house had been jolted right off its foundation.
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Vic was jolted awake by at least five explosions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Father Gannon added, his sudden pronged laughter jolting up her spine.
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He thought it was a twig breaking but then something jolted his memory.
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It was not the phone that jolted Polly so completely from her dreams, but fear.
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Long before morning, she was jolted awake by sounds outside her room.
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My lurching heart jolts me awake.
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Only to have your memory jolted by a loud and indignant beep.
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Second, the other Lakers will be jolted from their funk by the appearance of Magic.
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The car jolted over the rubble past a machine, and the panic ceased.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
feel
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And that was when, for the second time, Ronni felt a fierce jolt inside her.
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Harry felt a jolt of breath pump out of his mouth.
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Sarella felt a jolt through her entire body at the sight of him.
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Suddenly, I feel an internal jolt , a direct hit to the core of the boat.
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Suddenly she felt a jolt and her body was submerged underneath the mud.
give
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But in a way what happened last season gave us a necessary jolt .
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Still, the thought gave me quite a jolt of pleasure.
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The world economy was given a deflationary jolt .
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Each of us carries an unreliable ankle for instance, and Tony had just given his a jolt .
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She says before you were aware of it but until it happens, it really gives you such a jolt .
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They gave him this little jolt of fun.
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It gave him a nasty jolt , for a moment thinking it the very same dagger used to kill Lord Westbourne.
receive
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What is in some ways ironic is that a naive notion of necessity had already received a severe jolt from David Hume.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a jolt of caffeine
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electric jolts
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The tax laws may be a severe jolt to the economy.
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The train stopped with a sudden jolt .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But in a way what happened last season gave us a necessary jolt .
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But then, recovering from the jolt , he begins to think not.
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He longed for each ice-cold burning jolt in his stomach.
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Her accusation in front of her family had made him coldly furious, she realised with a jolt .
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The query seems like a jolt of reality, following stories Mrs Clinton has been telling of her college days.
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The world economy was given a deflationary jolt .
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What is in some ways ironic is that a naive notion of necessity had already received a severe jolt from David Hume.
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With a jolt of self-knowledge Caroline registered the same feeling of dismay as at that cool withdrawal after their picnic.