as in collision
a forceful coming together of two things
we felt a definite jounce every time the car hit a pothole
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as in to shake
to make a series of small irregular or violent movements
a rickety cart jouncing as it was being pulled over the cobblestoned streets
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Recent Examples of jounce
Carlos Lago, Car and Driver, 24 Jan. 2022
For the first time, the Corvette has such stiff spring rates that helper springs are needed to maintain proper check load when the car is at full jounce.
—Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2021
The affected vehicles have a front brake jounce hose that can rupture and lead to brake fluid leaking, ultimately possibly causing longer brake-pedal travel and increasing the risk of a crash.
—Colin Beresford, Car and Driver, 12 Aug. 2020
Going a step further, secondary Fox hydraulic jounce dampers—heavy-duty, short-stroke shock absorbers common on off-road racing vehicles—take the place of the front bump stops to help prevent the suspension from bottoming out.
—Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 17 Apr. 2020
Joe DeAngelo was thick-muscled and dough-faced, with an odd jounce to his gait.
—Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
Its suspension is soft and tuned for compliance such that the Atlas absorbed the jolts and jounces of our rutted camp driveway better than any other.
—Jeff Sabatini, Car and Driver, 13 July 2017
Mayo Clinic, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2019
But as the bus jounced along and the woman in the suit sat primly with her satchel in her lap, Magdalena changed her mind.
—Stephanie Green, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
The frame shape and temple design must harmonize with your helmet lest the glasses jounce around or, worse, rub your skull wrong.
—Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 13 June 2018
This band has a rare instrumentation — tenor saxophone, tuba, two drummers — and a relentless, jouncing sound anchored in rhythms of the Caribbean.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
On the album’s title tune, the bass line jounces from major to minor and then back again, as Mr. Mergia skates above it on organ and synthesizer and Fender Rhodes.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
Early mornings and midafternoons at Ranthambore see a restricted number of open-air vehicles shuttling tourists into the park to jounce along five dusty trail routes, each stretching a few miles.
—Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 11 May 2017
The second EMT’s eyebrows were jouncing around unreadably.
—Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
That rickety bus bounced and jounced along dirt roads and pulled into an Arizona elementary school.
—Michael Powell, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2017
Noun
Additional front and rear jounce dampers help absorb the load after landing sweet jumps, while new braces on the trailer hitch help increase the tow rating to 4500 pounds.
—Verb
Tailbone pain sometimes can arise after sitting on a hard surface for a long time, or sitting on an ill-fitting or jouncing seat.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for jounce
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The impact of the collision caused the bus to overturn and land on its roof in the small pond.Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
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About 6 percent of the time, these collisions will create molybdenum-99, says Piefer.Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2024
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When God appeared to Moses on the mountain to send him to powerful and evil Pharoah to set God’s people free, Moses shook with fear.Walt Shelton, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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The role wasn’t easy to shake off at the end of the day, especially after many months of filming.Emily Longeretta, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
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Twisted Sister blasts from speakers on the street and the tourists bob their heads along.Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
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Between the jutting concrete pier and the breakwater, a line of boats bobbed gently in the waves.Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
Noun
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And when the veteran Rams receiver returned to the lineup Thursday night after a four-game absence, the recently moribund offense anticipated a welcome jolt.Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
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Such a jolt could knock a person off their feet or cause fatal disruption to their heart rhythm.Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Your limbs, or even your entire upper body, may jerk or thrash in the process.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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Yanking a zipper shut is more likely to break teeth or jerk the slider off the track.Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Are you pumped for a new season of The Traitors‘ backstabbing drama?Nick Caruso, TVLine, 22 Nov. 2024
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For his latest project, the Sea Cliff, NY, native pumped the brakes, rolled up his sleeves and dug into his archive to dust off some of his earliest cuts from his SoundCloud days.Kyle Denis, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2024
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With a new house-music thump behind them, Fuerza Regida found a new after-hours realm.August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
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North American hikers might want to run toward weird thumps on the trail.Melvin Backman, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2024
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Apparently, a majority of people under 40 don’t bother separating out their darks and lights, and your Southern mother is shuddering.Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2024
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But this year, polls showed a trend that would have made my mother and aunt shudder.Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Jounce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jounce. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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