Crossword-Solution: STARTLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Startle | v. t. | To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start. |
| Startle | v. t. | To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise. |
| Startle | v. t. | To deter; to cause to deviate. |
| Startle | n. | A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STARTLE | anagram | RATTLES, STALTER, STARLET, STATLER, TELSTAR |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with STARTLE (5)
You’ve seen yourself for so long in the dull minds of the people about you, that if I were to tell you how you seem to me, it would startle you.
There was, moreover, a boldness and rotundity of speech among these matrons, as most of them seemed to be, that would startle us at the present day, whether in respect to its purport or its volume of tone.
Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person, that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner, that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation.
When, at last, the man was set up facing the turn in the path where old Mombi was to appear, he looked natural enough to be a fair imitation of a Gillikin farmer,—and unnatural enough to startle anyone that came on him unawares.
The report of the weapon, the first that Tarzan had ever heard, filled him with wonderment, but even this unaccustomed sound could not startle his healthy nerves into even a semblance of panic.
Quotes with STARTLE (3)
He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.
When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone — ‘I didn’t mean to startle her.
When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 90 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).