jarring

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English

Definitions

verb

To preserve (food) in a jar.

verb

To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.“He hit it with a hammer, hoping he could jar it loose.”
To harm or injure by such action.
To shock or surprise.“I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn’t got back in a car since.”
To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.

noun

Storage in jars.“The jarring of peaches took place at the end of the season.”
A feeling or movement that jars or jolts.

adjective

That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.

Related words

Synonyms

bottle cacophonic unsmooth rough cacophonous bumpy jolty jolting discordant dissenting mismatched jarry janglesome ajangle clangy jangly clashy

Associated

dissonance juxtaposition tonal contrasts listener viewer chords tone unexpected clip loose joke

Rhymes

barring marring sparring starring charring scarring tarring taring parring gnarring

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