"Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you."
"Nature watchers must be careful not to startle the wary animals."
How is it possible to startle a person so easily? It is really not nice to startle people.. Please stop trying to startle me... The whistle always seemed to startle me. This is how you use the word startle correctly
There's an octopus in the loo! If you startle an octopus, it may spurt out some ink.
No. Startle is a verb. The adverb form is "startlingly."
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a flinch
Amaze, baffle, mislead, bewilder, startle.
There are two syllables. Star-tle.
Why do I startle easy?"
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A startle is better than getting scared, since getting scared is a massive startle, but a startle is just a miniscule scare.
The past tense of startle is startled.