verb
- Move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion.
- Disturb (someone's) composure.
- usage: "The audience was jolted by the play"
- synonyms: jolt
adjective
- Bumped or shaken jerkily.
- usage: "the jolted passengers"
- Disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock.
- usage: "retrieved his named from her jolted memory"; "the accident left her badly shaken"
- synonyms: shaken
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