jarring

verb

  1. 1

    To preserve (food) in a jar.

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    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.
  2. 2

    To harm or injure by such action.

  3. 3

    To shock or surprise.

    I think the accident jarred him, as he hasn’t got back in a car since.
  4. 4

    To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.

  5. 5

    To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.

    The clashing notes jarred on my ears.
  6. 6

    To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.

  7. 7

    Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.

noun

  1. 1

    Storage in jars.

    The jarring of peaches took place at the end of the season.
  2. 2

    A feeling or movement that jars or jolts.

adjective

  1. 1

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

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