JARRING
15
Scrabble
19
WWF
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Definition
verb
- To preserve (food) in a jar.
verb
- To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.“He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.”
- To harm or injure by such action.
- To shock or surprise.“I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn’t got back in a car since.”
- To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
- To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.“The clashing notes jarred on my ears.”
noun
- Storage in jars.“The jarring of peaches took place at the end of the season.”
- A feeling or movement that jars or jolts.
adjective
- That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.
Source: Wiktionary
