jar against

1. 1.

   collide violently with an obstacle

   “I ran into the telephone pole”

   Synonymsrun intobump intobutt againstknock against

   Broaderhit

Questions about jar against

What does jar against mean?

jar against means "collide violently with an obstacle".

What is another word for jar against?

Close synonyms include run into, bump into, butt against, knock against. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jar against a common word?

jar against is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.