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Startle   /stˈɑrtəl/   Listen
verb
Startle  v. t.  
1.
To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise. "The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us."
2.
To deter; to cause to deviate. (R.)
Synonyms: To start; shock; fright; frighten; alarm.


Startle  v. i.  (past & past part. startled; pres. part. startling)  To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start. "Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?"


noun
Startle  n.  A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger. "After having recovered from my first startle, I was very well pleased with the accident."





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"Startle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Fearing to startle the little mother, whose frightened eyes were fixed upon us, we announced our mutual discovery by a single movement of the hand, and walked quietly past without pausing. Not until we reached the open fields at the end did my comrade ...
— Little Brothers of the Air • Olive Thorne Miller
... that had ripened in the far-off island, and had hardly yet grown paler or thinner in the atmosphere of New England. There was, moreover, a boldness and rotundity of speech among these matrons, as most of them seemed to be, that would startle us at the present day, whether in respect to its purport or its ...
— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... all good faith, she handed to her maid to put in her sealskin muff-bag. Of course, Louise managed to make herself aware of its contents,—but when her ladyship at last entered her carriage her unexpected order, "To the Brilliant Theatre, Strand," was sufficient to startle Briggs, and cause him to exchange surprise signals with "Mamzelle," who merely smiled a ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... twenty minutes. Then the pangs of hunger would render him restless, and he would draw out his watch to note the time of day. The next step in the formula would bring him back to my room door while I was still sleepily trying to reconnect the broken links of a dream, from which vain effort he would startle me into wide-awake reality by a stentorian ...
— Not Pretty, But Precious • John Hay, et al.
... million actors who make up the great troupe of Paris, there are unconscious Hyacinthes who "keep" all the absurd freaks of vanished fashions upon their backs; and the apparition of some bygone decade will startle you into laughter as you walk the streets in bitterness of soul over the treason of one who was ...
— Cousin Pons • Honore de Balzac


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