jarring

Verb

Present participle of jar.

Noun

(plural jarrings)

An act of jarring (in any sense).
The jarring of peaches took place at the end of the season.

Adjective

(comparative more jarring, superlative most jarring)

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

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Her senses caught up with her, jarring her out of her mind.
General Greene spoke finally, his voice jarring her out of her thoughts.
What remains to be done is, not to explain how such a world manages to be what it is, nor how we came to form these notions, but merely this - to expel from the circle and totality of our conceptions those abstract notions which are inconsistent and jarring, or to remodel and define them so that they may constitute a consistent and harmonious view.
The car abruptly halted its progress, slinging Lisa against the steering wheel with bone jarring force.
His great difficulty lay in managing his colleagues, who were, especially Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, able men of strong wills and jarring tempers.

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