See startle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Why shrinks the soul / Back on herself, and startles at destruction?",
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"ref": "1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Proposal of Marriage”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 127:",
"text": "He felt, too, that he was acting unjustly by Ethel: he had allowed a fortnight to elapse—he startled when he numbered up the days; it is strange how we allow them to glide imperceptibly away.",
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"(intransitive) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start."
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"sense": "to move or be excited on feeling alarm",
"word": "стряскам се"
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"word": "säikähtää"
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"word": "sursauter"
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"sense": "to move or be excited on feeling alarm",
"word": "aufschrecken"
},
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"sense": "to move or be excited on feeling alarm",
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"sense": "to move or be excited on feeling alarm",
"word": "scattare"
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"word": "sobbalzare"
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"word": "داچڵەکاندن"
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"word": "ohomauri"
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"word": "whakapererū"
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"word": "wareeruu"
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"word": "sobresaltarse"
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"ref": "1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us.",
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"ref": "1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter I, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part I, page 10:",
"text": "Nothing could startle her, make her scold or make her cry. She did not complain, she did not rebel.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1997, R. L. Stine, Say Cheese and Die, Again!:",
"text": "The high voice in the night air startled me. Without thinking, I started to run. Then stopped. I spun around, my heart heaving against my chest. And saw a boy. About my age.",
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"_dis1": "13 86 2",
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"word": "فَاجَأَ"
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"word": "بَاغَثَ"
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "плаша"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "嚇了一跳"
},
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"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xià le yí tiào",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "吓了一跳"
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"word": "vylekat"
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "laten schrikken"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "verschrikken"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "alarmi"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "säikäyttää"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "hätkäyttää"
},
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "surprendre"
},
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"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "erschrecken"
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"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "el",
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"roman": "xafniázo",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "ξαφνιάζω"
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"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "el",
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "αιφνιδιάζω"
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"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hevhil",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"tags": [
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"word": "הבהיל"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "spaventare"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "sorprendere"
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"alt": "おどかす",
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "脅かす"
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"_dis1": "13 86 2",
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "aturvar"
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"word": "consternō"
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "pavefaciō"
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "whakapereru"
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "assustar"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "dar um susto"
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"word": "пуга́ть"
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"perfective"
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"perfective"
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"word": "sobresaltar"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "espantar"
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"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "alarmar"
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{
"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "asustar"
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"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "spritta"
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"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kwaam dtòk jai",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "ความตกใจ"
},
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"_dis1": "13 86 2",
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zljakáty",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "зляка́ти"
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{
"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "làm giật mình"
},
{
"_dis1": "13 86 2",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "làm hoảng hốt"
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"ref": "1660, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England:",
"text": "it would blast all their hopes, and startle all other princes from joining",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:",
"text": "As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.",
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"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
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"_dis1": "1 1 98",
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"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"tags": [
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"word": "zastrašit"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "harhauttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 98",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "schivare"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 98",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "evitare"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "terreō"
},
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"_dis1": "1 1 98",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "evitar"
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{
"_dis1": "1 1 98",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "impedir"
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"word": "αιφνιδιάζω"
},
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hevhil",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "הבהיל"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "spaventare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "sorprendere"
},
{
"alt": "おどかす",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "odokasu",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "脅かす"
},
{
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "aturvar"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "consternō"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "pavefaciō"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "whakapereru"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "assustar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "dar um susto"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pugátʹ",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пуга́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ispugátʹ",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "испуга́ть"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "napugátʹ",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"tags": [
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"word": "напуга́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "sobresaltar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "espantar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "alarmar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "asustar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "spritta"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kwaam dtòk jai",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "ความตกใจ"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zljakáty",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "зляка́ти"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "làm giật mình"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension",
"word": "làm hoảng hốt"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odstrašit"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zastrašit"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "harhauttaa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "schivare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "evitare"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "terreō"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "evitar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to deter; to cause to deviate",
"word": "impedir"
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"ref": "1845, George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley, chapter 1, in The American review:",
"text": "The figure of a man heaving in sight amidst these wide solitudes, always causes a startle and thrill of expectation and doubt, similar to the feeling produced by the announcement of \" a strange sail ahead\" on shipboard, during a long voyage.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "uplaha",
"sense": "a sudden motion or shock",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "уплаха"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "šok",
"sense": "a sudden motion or shock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "шок"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a sudden motion or shock",
"tags": [
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"word": "leknutí"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a sudden motion or shock",
"word": "hätkähdys"
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"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "raçenîn",
"sense": "a sudden motion or shock",
"word": "ڕاچەنین"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ispug",
"sense": "a sudden motion or shock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "испуг"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a sudden motion or shock",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "sobresalto"
}
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"en:Startle (disambiguation)"
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"word": "startle"
}
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