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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



... I have come to the conclusion that this is the business I ought to do. I have only one parishioner on my hands to-day," he went on with a slight smile, "and I may as well attend to her. I am going to tell you my plan. I shall not startle you? Just now you allowed that ...
— Diana • Susan Warner
... selfe would startle at this letter, And play the swaggerer, beare this, beare all: Shee saies I am not faire, that I lacke manners, She calls me proud, and that she could not loue me Were man as rare as Phenix: 'od's my will, Her loue is not the Hare that I doe hunt, Why ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... where, in babies, the head remains soft during babyhood. He could have broken connection with Barter for these two by jerking the controls free. And then what? He would never get through to Barter and would release in Bronx Park two men whose strange type of madness, when they were discovered, would startle the countryside. Two men with the savagery of anthropoid apes! He shuddered as he carefully refrained ...
— The Mind Master • Arthur J. Burks
... late day, no such excitement can be created by any human invention, but the sight of a creature speeding over the country, impelled by steam, and bearing such a grotesque resemblance to a gigantic man, could not but startle all who should see it for the ...
— The Huge Hunter - Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies • Edward S. Ellis
... this last surmise the oldest Rover boy was sadly mistaken. Many things of which he and his cousins did not dream were to occur, not only to startle and annoy them, but also to place them ...
— The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island - or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box • Edward Stratemeyer


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