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jarring
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Word definitions for jarring in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. making or causing a harsh and irritating sound; "the jarring noise of the iron gate scraping on the sidewalk" characterized by rough motion; "a bumpy ride" [syn: bumpy , jolting , jolty ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jar \Jar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jarred ; p. pr. & vb. n. Jarring .] [Cf. OE. charken to creak, AS. cearcian to gnash, F. jars a gander, L. garrire to chatter, prate, OHG. kerran to chatter, croak, G. quarren to grumble, and E. jargon, ajar.] To give forth ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful. n. An act of jarring (in any sense). v (present participle of jar English)
Usage examples of jarring.
He lowered himself carefully into the chair behind the desk to avoid jarring his ribs and gave Officers Teddy Begayaye, Deejay Hondo, Edison Bai, and Bernadette Manuelito a few moments to inspect the damage.
The harsher consonants in euphonious texts become less jarring when in the proximity of softer sounds.
She walked back toward her chambers but had not yet reached the tall doors when a disquieting occurrence took place, a jarring note in the paean of her triumphant return to Isse Tower.
The horse spun on its hind legs and crashed back down, jarring Krai forward across the pommel.
The gun itself recoiled with the force of a runaway locomotive, jarring backward a full ten paces to mangle the legs of the two leading horses of the limber team.
To wed Nils Lykke to one of my house were doubtless a great step toward reconciling many jarring forces in our land.
In their endless stocktaking of orderly births and deaths her sudden appearance was as jarring an event as a disappearance would have been, the mirror-image of a murder or an abduction.
Almost immediately, with an excruciatingly jarring impact, Pandora, Damp and Tarantella arrived at the portal.
When her unsandalled foot caught on an edge of the jagged paving she fled one-legged, each hop jarring a whimper out of her.
It was jarring to have this big male, whiffy from the road and petrol, invading their kitchen.
Be sure that not without reason did the ancients feign Eros to be the eldest of the gods, by whom the jarring elements of chaos were attuned into harmony and order.
The recalled demand splashed Bree like a bucket of icy water, jarring her from her stupor.
The damaged vehicle burned sullenly, occasional explosions jarring the ground and sending tongues of flame through its hatches and around the gun that lay slanting toward the ground, its mantlet slammed free of the surrounding armor.
The Mustee, at an hour past noon, was at its most crowded, with heavily laden camels pressing stolidly through the throng, and the shouts of the veiled women selling oranges rising in jarring cacophony over the song of the rat catcheron whose broad-brimmed hat six trained examples of his prey, each wearing a little hat of its own, formed a pyramidand the yells of the fish and milk vendors and the chanted prayers of the beggars.
He landed with a jarring thud on the cobbled street, and scrambled into a maze of alleys as the strich ran off in another direction.