Jolt vs Catastrophe - What's the difference?
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To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
To knock sharply; to deal a blow to.
To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert; as, to jolt someone out of complacency
To shock emotionally.
To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
An act of jolting.
A surprise or shock.
(slang) A long prison sentence.
(slang) A narcotic injection.
Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
(insurance) A disaster beyond expectations
(narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot in a tragedy.
(mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
Jolt is a related term of catastrophe.
As verbs the difference between jolt and catastrophe
is that jolt is to push or shake abruptly and roughly while catastrophe is .As a noun jolt
is an act of jolting.jolt
English
(wikipedia jolt)Verb
(en verb)- The bus jolted its passengers.
- Her untimely death jolted us all.
- The bus jolted along the stony path.