He glanced over my shoulder with a startled expression.
A few synonyms for startled is frightened,surprised,scared and shocking also giving you the chills.
Some other words for startled are: surprised, unexpected, shocked, stupefy and emotional disturbance
A startled Cockerel.
You have startled the dog..scared him
The spelling is startled, as in The trick STARTLED him.
Yes, "startled" is the past participle of startle.
Startled means to be in shock or amaze of something.
Startled is the verb in your sentence.
Deer and rabbits are easily startled.
more startled most startled
You startled me, because I hadn't heard you come home.
The startled deer zigzagged out of the underbrush and was gone in a flash.
The is the past tense of the VERB to startle.
He glanced over my shoulder with a startled expression.
Surprised almost means the same as startled.
The problem with the wording in "Startled by the noise, the alarm clock was knocked on the floor" is that it makes it sound like the alarm clock was startled. It would be better written: "Startled by the alarm clock, I knocked it on the floor."