startle

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He wanted to jump up and whoop with joy, but Thor was curled up and asleep in the sling, and a good skunk caretaker would never startle his kit like that.

From Literature

It was a new and startling thing to me for ordinary friendship to be as off-limits as romance could be.

From Literature

Galleries on the outer courts were often tens deep, while the image of thousands of Filipinos queuing in line to watch their idol Alexandra Eala was startling.

From BBC

I’m so startled to be caught watching him that I put my sketchbook in front of my face.

From Literature

Frank showed him the kitchen, the boot room, the larder stocked with herbs and jars of preserves and beans and a startling number of tins of anchovies.

From Literature