The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - joltv.

1) jar, shake (up) , jostle, bump, bounce, jerk: The cart jolted over the rough terrain. 2) butt, strike, hit, push, nudge, elbow, knock, jab: He jolted me so hard he actually cracked a rib. 3) shock, astonish, astound, amaze, surprise, startle, stun, dumbfound or dumfound, stupefy, strike dumb, daze, shake (up) : I was jolted to learn that my husband had been arrested for murder. --n. 4) lurch, jar, jerk, bump, jump, bounce, start: The train started with a jolt that almost knocked me over. 5) blow, shock, surprise, bolt from the blue, bombshell: It was certainly a jolt to discover that she had left me.