MEANING
1. To push or bump against others in a crowded movement.
2. To compete actively for an advantageous place or status.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- jostle for space
- jostle through a crowd
On the page
Passengers jostled beneath the narrow awning.
Word forms
- Base
- jostle
- Past tense
- jostled
- Past participle
- jostled
- Present participle
- jostling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- jostle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are jostling
- Present perfect
- have/has jostled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been jostling
- Past
- jostled
- Past continuous
- was/were jostling
- Past perfect
- had jostled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been jostling
- Future
- will jostle
- Future continuous
- will be jostling
- Future perfect
- will have jostled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been jostling
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: jostle; jostles; jostled; jostled; jostling Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: jostles.
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