Definition of "jolted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of jolt. (verb)

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• "When you advise a woman to dally with men because they might, in exchange, arrange for that woman “to buy everything from electric blankets to hi-fi records wholesale,” then you have violated the signal code of people who were jolted from the middle class in the 1930s: their ardent desire to behave decently because, for a time in their lives, that behavior was all that separated them from the Helen Gurleys of the world."
• "The word jolted my memory of the TV program from a few weeks earlier, and raised the question: is it possible to be accidentally hypnotised?"
• "Rachel Belmore was jolted from a dream, awash with dread."