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.
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Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.
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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.
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Raven Smith,
Vogue,
19 Nov. 2024
The cars judder past the fallow fields of late November as day gradually brightens the gray, polluted sky.
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IEEE Spectrum,
28 Apr. 2016
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for judder
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Hernández said Rossi Ydrogo had just called his brother in Caracas 20 minutes before the earth started to shake.
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In Venezuela, rescue teams have been racing against the clock to pull survivors from the rubble after two powerful earthquakes shook the northern state of La Guaira last Wednesday.
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A lot of people are upset by the notion of bringing cage fights to the White House, shuddering at the bad taste of it all.
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Design practices Not knowing ahead of time what lunar explorers may face is an unsure, shuddering proposition.
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Watching their relationship devolve (never more so than when their sperm donor, a rakish, motorcycle-driving restaurant owner played by Mark Ruffalo, enters the scene) is most definitely a tear-jerking experience, as is the film’s final scene.
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Some were petty — like Reese committing a foul against Clark, then jerking her head back, impersonating Clark as a flopper.
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These bees vibrate flowers to release the pollen, improving pollination and fruit set.
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Ongoing work in string theory — the idea that our universe, at its smallest, most fundamental level, is made up of vibrating strings — suggests a way these concepts might be connected.
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“Judder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/judder. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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