as in shaking
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 juddering
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
The tightly wound tension is maintained also by Volker Bertelmann’s propulsive score, which starts with ominous juddering groans and keeps shapeshifting throughout.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
Jason Pettigrew,
SPIN,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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
The tightly wound tension is maintained also by Volker Bertelmann’s propulsive score, which starts with ominous juddering groans and keeps shapeshifting throughout.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
There’s no denying Gordon’s bona fides (disheveled noise-rocker, riot-grrl signal amplifier, fashion designer, unvarnished solo artist, cultural commentator), but none of that really prepares you for PLAY ME’s jarring, juddering audio verite.
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Jason Pettigrew,
SPIN,
9 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for juddering
Noun
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Ditch the plastic iterations for a sculptural rattan rocking horse that doubles as nursery decor when not in use.
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What looks like an aesthetic rocking chair is actually an anti-gravity chair, to help with spinal decompression.
Verb
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This tournament has built credibility by showcasing teams competing at a high level, then shaking hands afterward.
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An earth-shaking roar The World Cup finally arrived in Kansas City after several years of preparation and anticipation.
Noun
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The horror has come now like a storm— what if this night prefigured the night after death— what if all thereafter was an eternal quivering on the edge of an abyss, with everything base and vicious in oneself urging one forward and the baseness and viciousness of the world just ahead.
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The old dog slowed to a stop, nose full of bird stink, feathery tail quivering.
Verb
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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.
Noun
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All the trembling, as Kimbangu touched the sick, alarmed European settlers and reassured the plantation workers who trekked to Nkamba in search of healing.
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At first this change of scale vivifies the butterfly—its brief stillness, the angle of its wings, its trembling—while freezing everything else, including the novel’s action.
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These seemingly innocuous incidents attain new significance as they’re revisited alongside a slow crescendo that suddenly turns to shuddering piano chords on the track’s bridge.
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Choose Baits with Vibration Lipless crankbaits earn their keep each spring, as their shuddering motion creates the bait-mimicking tremors to which bass respond.
Noun
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Casting near banks and using a twitching technique can increase success during the hatch.
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During this phase, octopuses display visible twitching along with rapid changes in skin color and texture, per NPR.
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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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Food is the vibrating heart of city life, with weekly markets that connect locals to the land, intimate eateries serving Tasmanian seafood and meat in creative contexts, and providores packed with small-batch producers turning out world-class perishables.
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“Juddering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/juddering. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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