MEANING
To bounce, shake, or move through abrupt jolts.
Use it for
a body shaken unevenly; jolting motion through rough travel; movement rather than a steady vibration
Words that belong together
- jounce over a track
- a jouncing motion
On the page
The cart jounced over the broken track.
The suspended frame jounced when the cable tightened.
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Word forms
- Base
- jounce
- Past tense
- jounced
- Past participle
- jounced
- Present participle
- jouncing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- jounce
- Present continuous
- am/is/are jouncing
- Present perfect
- have/has jounced
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been jouncing
- Past
- jounced
- Past continuous
- was/were jouncing
- Past perfect
- had jounced
- Past perfect continuous
- had been jouncing
- Future
- will jounce
- Future continuous
- will be jouncing
- Future perfect
- will have jounced
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been jouncing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: jounce; jounces; jounced; jounced; jouncing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: jounces.
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