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Jolt vs Spook - What's the difference?

jolt | spook |

As verbs the difference between jolt and spook

is that jolt is to push or shake abruptly and roughly while spook is to scare or frighten.

As nouns the difference between jolt and spook

is that jolt is an act of jolting while spook is a spirit returning to haunt a place.

jolt

English

(wikipedia jolt)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
    • The bus jolted its passengers.
  • 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.
    • Her untimely death jolted us all.
  • To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
    • The bus jolted along the stony path.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of jolting.
  • A surprise or shock.
  • (slang) A long prison sentence.
  • (slang) A narcotic injection.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (prison sentence) bit

    spook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spirit returning to haunt a place.
    • The visit to the old cemetery brought scary visions of spooks and ghosts.
  • A ghost or an apparition.
    • The building was haunted by a couple of spooks .
  • A hobgoblin.
  • (espionage) A spy.
  • * 2009 , "Spies like them", BBC News Magazine (online), 24 July 2009:
    • From Ian Fleming to John Le Carre - authors have long been fascinated by the world of espionage. But, asks the BBC’s Gordon Corera, what do real life spooks make of fictional spies?
  • * 2012 , The Economist, Oct 13th 2012, Huawei and ZTE: Put on hold
    • The congressional study frets that Huawei’s and ZTE’s products could be used as Trojan horses by Chinese spooks .
  • A scare or fright.
    • The big spider gave me a spook .
  • (dated, pejorative) A black person.

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To scare or frighten.
  • To startle or frighten an animal
    • The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran.

    Derived terms

    * spookiness * spookish * spook out * spooky

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