MEANING
1. To shake or move with small, repeated jolts.
2. To fit or join pieces with interlocking projections and recesses.
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Words that belong together
- joggle a handle
- a joggling motion
On the page
The loose handle joggled as the door moved.
He joggled the frame until the concealed catch shifted.
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Word forms
- Base
- joggle
- Past tense
- joggled
- Past participle
- joggled
- Present participle
- joggling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- joggle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are joggling
- Present perfect
- have/has joggled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been joggling
- Past
- joggled
- Past continuous
- was/were joggling
- Past perfect
- had joggled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been joggling
- Future
- will joggle
- Future continuous
- will be joggling
- Future perfect
- will have joggled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been joggling
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: joggle; joggles; joggled; joggled; joggling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: joggles.
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