different between startle vs shocked
startle
English
Etymology
From Middle English startlen, stertlen, stertyllen (“to rush, stumble along”), from Old English steartlian (“to kick with the foot, struggle, stumble”), equivalent to start +? -le. Cognate with Old Norse stirtla (“to hobble, stagger”), Icelandic stirtla (“to straighten up, erect”). Compare also Middle English stertil (“hasty”). More at start.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?st??t(?)l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?st??t(?)l/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t?l
Verb
startle (third-person singular simple present startles, present participle startling, simple past and past participle startled)
- (intransitive) To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
- Why shrinks the soul / Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
- (transitive) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
- The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us.
- 1896, Joseph Conrad, "An Outcast of the Islands"
- Nothing could startle her, make her scold or make her cry. She did not complain, she did not rebel.
- (transitive, obsolete) To deter; to cause to deviate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (to move suddenly): start
- (to excite suddenly): alarm, frighten, scare, surprise
- (deter): deter
Derived terms
- startling
Translations
Noun
startle (plural startles)
- A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.
Derived terms
- startler
- startlish
Translations
See also
- skittish
Anagrams
- Slatter, Stalter, Statler, rattles, slatter, starlet
startle From the web:
- what startled means
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- what startled miss honey the most
- what startled the quiet pool
shocked
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??kt/
- Hyphenation: shocked
- Rhymes: -?kt
Adjective
shocked (comparative more shocked, superlative most shocked)
- Surprised, startled, confused, or taken aback.
- (medicine) Suffering from shock.
- (physics) Affected, altered, or transformed by one or more shock waves.
Derived terms
- shocked quartz
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:astonished
Translations
Verb
shocked
- simple past tense and past participle of shock
shocked From the web:
- what shocked harry before the dursleys
- what shocked the yeehats
- what shocked gif
- what shocked america about the brown decision
- what shocked meme
- what shocked percy about the animals
- what shocked the angel of death
- what shocked the nation in 1944
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