Definition of Startles

1. Noun. (plural of startle) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of startle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Startles

1. startle [v] - See also: startle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Startles

starting stalls
starting time
starting up
startingly
startings
startish
startle
startle reaction
startle reflex
startle response
startled
startlement
startlements
startler
startlers
startles (current term)
startling
startlingly
startlish
startly
starts
starts up
startsy
startup
startupper
startups
starvation
starvation acidosis
starvations
starve

Literary usage of Startles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. From Harrison to Harding: A Personal Narrative, Covering a Third of a by Arthur Wallace Dunn (1922)
"Bryan, Apparently Undecided, Expresses His Views—startles and Dismays a Group of Southern Democrats—What Governor Johnson Would Do—Third Term Talk Revived—" ..."

2. A Dialogue on the Best Form of Government by George Cornewall Lewis (1863)
"social condition which it necessarily involves, and has taught us to regard it as an obvious truth; but it startles the philanthropist, when he first ..."

3. The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems by George Edward Woodberry (1890)
"I feel the conqueror in my blood and race ; Last night Trafalgar awed me, and to-day Gibraltar wakened; hark, thy evening gun startles the desert over ..."

4. The Library Magazine (1887)
"One boy writes, "I have been a mouse;" the statement startles; learned men talk of metempsychosis, and less learned folk have heard of the transmigration of ..."

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