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verb

ˈjä-gəl How to pronounce joggle (audio)
Definition of jogglenext
as in to shake
to make a series of small irregular or violent movements the old bus joggled as it barreled down the dirt road

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noun

as in punch

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for joggle
  1. shake
  2. punch
  3. jerk
  4. hack
  5. shudder
  6. chip
  7. vibrate
  8. groove
Verb
  • Sitake winds up practice with a prayer and insists that the defense and offense shake hands after going at one another all day.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Mothers who beat, shook, shot, drowned, strangled, and stabbed their babies.
    — Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of shake
Noun
  • As the officer attempted to handcuff Bowman, the video shows Bowman move his hand toward the officer's hands before the punches.
    — Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Pocket-sized Hong Kong packs more of a punch than its 430-square-mile size might suggest.
    — Lee Cobaj, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of punch
Verb
  • During the test, Linton jerked and twitched in what prosecutors described as an attempt to fake a seizure.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Drivers should never swerve or jerk the steering wheel, the state patrol said.
    — Celia Frazier, Denver Post, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of jerk
Noun
  • Quest Diagnostics has seen hacks impacting patient records before.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Billie Eilish shared the kind of makeup hack beauty girlies dream about, using a product that cost less than $10 at the time.
    — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of hack
Verb
  • Indiana Jones would shudder, but for herpetologist Scott Ballard, a slither doesn't produce a sliver of fear.
    — Noel Brennan, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Conservatives shuddered to think how close the country had come to permanent entangling alliances.
    — Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of shudder
Noun
  • The shift from chips to capital carries significant risks should OpenAI run into trouble.
    — Kif Leswing,Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the MacBook Neo runs on an A18 Pro chip, first released in iPhones and adapted to run macOS.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of chip
Verb
  • While the paintings may not be physically vibrating, their compositions resonate with a similar intensity.
    — Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
  • One man said his apartment was vibrating Wednesday night as crews worked nearby.
    — Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of vibrate
Noun
  • Aledo builds momentum, downs Arlington Aledo’s offense has found a groove.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The production is a rattling junk drawer of circuit-bent thrift-store keyboards, dusty drum machines, and unintuitive loops, and KTO combines them into head-scratching, shouldn’t-work grooves.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of groove
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