startle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.

   “a horse that startles easily”

2. fiil 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.”

3. fiil To deter; to cause to deviate.

   “it would blast all their hopes, and startle all other princes from joining”

4. isim A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.

   “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.”