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judder

verb

ˈjə-dər

Definition of judder

chiefly British

as in to shake

to make a series of small irregular or violent movements the engine began to judder alarmingly just a few miles outside of Brighton

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Recent Examples of judder Well, after years of stuttering, pausing, juddering, waiting for the goalkeeper to dive and then rolling spot kicks meekly into the net, Nick Woltemade may have just reversed the trend. — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025 Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other. — Book Marks august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025 We’re inundated with remakes—recognizable storylines and premises that repeat the familiar rather than juddering-ly rearrange our worldview. — Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024 The cars judder past the fallow fields of late November as day gradually brightens the gray, polluted sky. — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016 See All Example Sentences for judder

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Tarrant County District Attorney In mid-November 1996, Narez shook her daughter, Kasandra White, and threw the child into a wall, causing her head to strike a door, according to the 1999 Tarrant County grand jury indictment.

— S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
On Monday, in the early morning, cheerleaders flanked the entrance to the courtyard, cheering and shaking their pom-poms as their classmates filed in, showing varying degrees of enthusiasm.

— Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of shake

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On Thursday, Clancy loudly sobbed, shuddered and covered her face with her hands as a medical examiner testified about Callan’s autopsy.

— Andi Babineau, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Speaking to the media before England’s 3-2 victory over Mexico in the World Cup last 16, England manager Thomas Tuchel gave an update on Declan Rice that would make Arsenal fans shudder.

— Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 13 July 2026

Definition of shudder

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The mouth fiddle belongs to a family of instruments that are orally modulated, lending qualities of the human voice to the sound waves emitted by a vibrating string.

— Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
So make sure to put your phone on silent or vibrate or turn it off.

— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026

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