judder

Plural: judders

Verb

Verb Forms: juddered, juddering, judders

• To shake or vibrate violently and unevenly.
• shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
  • "The old engine was juddering"
• To spasm or shake violently.
• To move with a stop-start motion, as if experiencing a strong resistance or when decelerating brusquely.

Noun

• A spasmodic shaking.
• Jerky playback caused by converting between frame rates; telecine judder

Examples

• The board seemed to judder under the weight of his high-scoring, eight-letter word.
• To judder to a halt

Synonyms

shake

Related Words

shudder

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