To startle is to jump, like when you're surprised. If you’re sneaking through a dark room and step on a sleeping dog’s tail you might startle the dog. If she barks, that dog startles you right back!
To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
Noun
a sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start"
Verb
to stimulate to action ; "..startled him awake"; "galvanized into action"
Verb
move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room"
v. t.
To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to
start.
v. t.
To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension;
to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
v. t.
To deter; to cause to deviate.
n.
A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm,
surprise, or apprehension of danger.
Startle
Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
Startle
The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us.2.
Startle
After having recovered from my first startle, I was very well pleased with the accident.
To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.
Usage Examples
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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