jolt

a jolt of electricity; a jolt of whiskey.

the train jolted into motion.

The remark jolted my memory.

Please pour me a jolt of whisky.

jolted his opponent with a heavy punch; an impact that jolted the mailbox loose.

a surge in the crowd behind him jolted him forwards.

we were jolted from our postprandial torpor.

stops and starts that jolted the passengers.

Her angry words jolted him.

she tried to jolt him out of his depression.

She was jolted by the betrayal of her trusted friend.

"In one of the jolts, the whiffle-tree broke."There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion;

a series of jolts as the baby carriage rolled down the steps;

Her angry words jolted him out of the belief that she loved him.

First, Linc pushed over a chair and jolted a knickknack table off its accustomed site hard enough so that a cup and saucer fell to the rug.