startle
IPA: stˈɑrtʌɫ
noun
- A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.
verb
- (intransitive) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
- (transitive) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
- (transitive, obsolete) To deter; to cause to deviate.
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Examples of "startle" in Sentences
- Drug deaths startle officials.
- Sonic booms startle area residents.
- It intrigued me, but did not startle me.
- He is startled by a weird looking creature.
- He is startled by the creature and is killed by it.
- The closeness of the race startled the nation at the time.
- However, the knight is startled by the phone and destroys it.
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