Crossword-Solution: STARTLED 8 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Startled imp. & p. p. of Startle

We have 36 clues for the answer “STARTLED”

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suddenly frightened 1 answer
Alarmed by surprise 1 answer
Caused to jump 1 answer
Frightened mildly 1 answer
Frightened suddenly 1 answer
Given a turn 1 answer
Made jump 1 answer
Snuck up on, perhaps 1 answer
Surprised, as by a loud noise 1 answer
Taken aback suddenly 1 answer
excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement 1 answer
Made jump, maybe 2 answers
Caught unaware 2 answers
Caught by surprise 3 answers
Caught off guard 4 answers
agasp 5 answers
All shook up 6 answers
Aback Take 10 answers
Shook up 12 answers
ABACK 28 answers
Horrified 33 answers
Appalled 36 answers
flabbergasted 37 answers
surprised 38 answers
Thunderstruck 38 answers
Astounded 41 answers
Astonished. 43 answers
Blown away 45 answers
Dumb-founded 45 answers
Afraid 45 answers
Frightened 48 answers
Shocked 49 answers
A-mazed? 51 answers
Alarmed. 51 answers
disconcerted 60 answers
DISTRESSED ___ 64 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZMEEAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STARTLED (5)

The truth was, that as she now stood—excited, wild, and honest as the day—her alluring beauty bore out so fully the epithets he had bestowed upon it that he was quite startled at his temerity in advancing them as false.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Its instability startled me extremely, and I had a queer reminiscence of the childish days when I used to be forbidden to meddle.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
The early editions of the evening papers had startled London with enormous headlines: “A MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM MARS.” “REMARKABLE STORY FROM WOKING,” and so forth.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
The fireflies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon brightness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch’s token.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992

Quotes with STARTLED (3)

Except fang. I glared at him. "Go on, try to stop me, I dare you." It was like the old days when we used to wrestle, each trying to get the better of the other. I was ready to take him down, my hands curled into fist. "I was just going to say be careful," Fang told me. He stepped closer and brushed some hair out of my eyes. "And I've got your back." He motioned with his head toward the torpedo chamber. Oh my God. It hit me like a tsunami then, how perfect he was for me, how n…
James Patterson Maximum Ride Five-Book Set
What’s not so great is that all this technology is destroying our social skills. Not only have we given up on writing letters to each other, we barely even talk to each other. People have become so accustomed to texting that they’re actually startled when the phone rings. It’s like we suddenly all have Batphones. If it rings, there must be danger. Now we answer, “What happened? Is someone tied up in the old sawmill?”“No, it’s Becky. I just called to say hi.”“Well you scared m…
Ellen DeGeneres Seriously... I'm Kidding
I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II Hear the mellow …
Edgar Allan Poe
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 23 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).