Crossword-Solution: STARTLED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Startled | imp. & p. p. | of Startle |
We have 36 clues for the answer “STARTLED”
| Clue | Answers |
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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.
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.
Its instability startled me extremely, and I had a queer reminiscence of the childish days when I used to be forbidden to meddle.
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 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.
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…
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…
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 …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 23 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).