to jounce
1
9.6
- verb
- /dʒaʊns/
:
sacudirse
- The rover was plunging at top speed across a field of rocks, its spindly, springy wheels jouncing and rattling them so hard that they had both strapped themselves into the cockpit seats.
- jouncing and bouncing
- jouncing the cart
- truck jounced
Examples
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The car hits a depression and jounces wildly.
Fiction book (1997) -
The woman's face jounced with the vibration.
Fiction book (1994) -
"Try to jounce it about a foot forward."
Fiction book (1999) -
Want her to be jounced over rough roads and have the baby ahead of time?
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The cart jounced, the boy pushing from behind.
Fiction book (1992) -
The car jounced on its shocks.
Fiction book (1993) -
I felt myself wince every time the baby's neck jounced up and down.
Fiction book (1994) -
My feet faltered and slid; my pack jounced heavily on my back.
Fiction book (1993) -
The old truck jounced down the bumpy dirt road, making the passengers bounce in their seats.
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As the car jounced over the potholes, I struggled to keep my drink from spilling.
Synonyms
386
1.3
To move quickly away from a surface after hitting it, moving up and down in a springy way
89
1.0
To move with small, quick movements from side to side or up and down
83
2.3
To move a part of the body up and down or back and forth quickly
46
3.2
To move something in short, quick shaking movements
To move something lightly and repeatedly so it shakes
To move with a sudden sharp shake, for example over bumps
To move or shake your body suddenly and violently
Antonyms
How Violent
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word jounce began as a verb meaning 'to shake' and is like bounce or jolt, so to jounce is to move up and down with hard, sudden jerks.