Definition of Startle

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Startle

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.

To deter; to cause to deviate.

A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

Related Definitions:

Alarm, An, And, Apprehension, Be, By, Cause, Caused, Danger, Deter, Deviate, Excite, Excited, Feeling, Frighten, Motion, Move, Not, Of, On, Or, Shock, Start, Sudden, Surprise, To, Unexpected

Startle Quotations

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.
John Keats

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
James Laughlin

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.
Nobuo Uematsu

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Walter Pater

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.
Zola Budd

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.
Nobuo Uematsu

Startle Translations

startle in German is aufschrecken, aufschrecken, aufschreckens
startle in Spanish is sobresaltar

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