juddered; juddering; judders
chiefly British
: to vibrate with intensity
the engine stalled and kept juddering—
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Verb
the engine began to judder alarmingly just a few miles outside of Brighton
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Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
Dan Kenyon’s dense sound design is another highly effective component, often blurring the lines between ambient noise and composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s chilling score, which incorporates clanking, groaning, juddering industrial sounds and leans heavily into distortion.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
John Archer, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Choose a Custom Picture Clarity, though, and set the projector’s judder reduction tool to level one or two, and the digital artefacts and excessive smoothness all fade away, leaving you with a picture that looks clean and cinematic.
—John Archer, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
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Verb
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
Dan Kenyon’s dense sound design is another highly effective component, often blurring the lines between ambient noise and composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s chilling score, which incorporates clanking, groaning, juddering industrial sounds and leans heavily into distortion.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
Noun
There’s an occasional stutter effect on the TCL, more pronounced judder, and more sense of resolution loss from panel blur.
—John Archer, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Choose a Custom Picture Clarity, though, and set the projector’s judder reduction tool to level one or two, and the digital artefacts and excessive smoothness all fade away, leaving you with a picture that looks clean and cinematic.
—John Archer, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
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“Judder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/judder. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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