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Justled vs Jostled - What's the difference?

justled | jostled |

As verbs the difference between justled and jostled

is that justled is (justle) while jostled is (jostle).

justled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (justle)

    • justle

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To jostle.
  • * Bible, Nahum ii. 4
    • The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one against another in the broad ways.
  • * 1776 — , Wealth of Nations , page 759
    • Where the competition is free, the rivalship of competitors, who are all endeavouring to justle one another out of employment, obliges every man to endeavour to execute his work with a certain degree of exactness.
  • * Addison
    • We justled one another out, and disputed the post for a great while.
  • * 1939 , , Additional Poems , IX
  • *:When the bells justle in the tower
  • *:The hollow night amid,
  • *:Then on my tongue the taste is sour
  • *:Of all I ever did.

    • jostled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (jostle)

    • jostle

    English

    Verb

    (jostl)
  • (ambitransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
  • * Macaulay
    • Bullies jostled him.
  • * I. Taylor
    • Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other.
  • To move through by pushing and shoving.
  • To be close to or in physical contact with.
  • To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
  • (dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An experience in which jostling occurs.
  • Being crowded or in a condition of jostling.