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judder

UK/ˈd͡ʒʌdə/US/ˈd͡ʒʌdɚ/

judder noun: a spasmodic shaking.

Noun

judder (countable and uncountable, plural judders)

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

Verb

judder (third-person singular simple present judders, present participle juddering, simple past and past participle juddered)

  1. (intransitive) To spasm or shake violently.
    • Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.2000, Mark Gatiss, “chapter 20”, in Last of the Gaderene
  2. (intransitive) To move with a stop-start motion, as if experiencing a strong resistance or when decelerating brusquely.
    • To judder to a halt

judder meaning in Tamil and Bengali

judder in Tamil

அதிரல், துள்ளி

judder in Bengali

সশব্দে কম্পিত হওয়া

Examples of judder in a sentence

  • The renovation effort came to a juddering stop due to a lack of funding.
  • The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.
  • The judder is felt through the steering wheel, not the car.

All 10 example sentences with judder

Forms of judder

Noun
pluraljudders
Verb
third-person singular presentjudders
present participlejuddering
past participlejuddered
pastjuddered

Words formed from judder

Phrases with judder

Words that rhyme with judder

Questions about judder

What does judder mean?
Judder means a spasmodic shaking.
What is judder in Tamil?
Judder in Tamil is அதிரல், துள்ளி. See Judder meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is judder?
Judder can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce judder?
Judder is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌdə/ (UK).
What is the plural of judder?
The plural of judder is judders.

Words near judder in the dictionary

  1. Judbury
  2. judcock
  3. judcocks
  4. judd
  5. Judd's dictum
  6. judder
  7. judder bar
  8. judder bars
  9. juddered
  10. juddering
  11. judderingly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: judder (page history and authors); judder (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); judder (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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