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Definition of Startled
1. Adjective. Excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement. "Her startled expression"
Definition of Startled
1. Adjective. Extremely shocked. ¹
2. Verb. (past of ''startle'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Startled
1. startle [v] - See also: startle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Startled
Literary usage of Startled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Prone on her face the abbess fell, And fast, and fast, her beads did tell; Her
nuns came, startled by the yell, And found her there alone. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1879)
"... the whole family were startled by another letter in the same handwriting as
the last, but not coming from Mexico. CHAPTER XXVI. APRIL FOOLS. 'Erschien . ..."
3. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"... among these were Mr. Wood and my brother, and the carpenter. The carpenter
was still stretched upon his mattress when he A startled ..."
4. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"... more startled at the ball cutting up the ground than at the report of the rifle.
My powder being exhausted, I was obliged to get up (to my shame as a ..."
5. Table Talk: And Other Poems by William Cowper (1817)
"When Hope,long1 ling"ring-,at last yields the ghost, The sound of pardon pierce
his startled ear, 1 DRAWN BY RICHARD ..."
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