Startle

What do we mean by startle?

To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start. intransitive verb

To alarm, frighten, or surprise suddenly. synonym: frighten. intransitive verb

To become alarmed, frightened, or surprised. intransitive verb

A sudden, brief episode of fear. noun

A sudden, involuntary movement in response to something frightening or unexpected, such as a noise. noun

To start; manifest fear, alarm, surprise, pain, or similar emotion by a sudden involuntary start.

To wince; shrink.

To move suddenly, as if surprised or frightened.

To take to flight, as in panic; stampede, as cattle.

To take departure; depart; set out.

To cause to start; excite by sudden surprise, alarm, apprehension, or other emotion; scare; shock.

To rouse suddenly; cause to start, as from a place of concealment or from a state of repose or security.

A sudden movement or shock caused by surprise, alarm, or apprehension of danger; a start. noun

To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise. transitive verb

To deter; to cause to deviate. transitive verb

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

To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start. intransitive verb

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

To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise. verb

To deter; to cause to deviate. verb

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

Words that are spelled similarly to startle:
startle, smartle.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word startle:
reflex, habituation, fps, moro, predators, predator, reflexes, stiffness, stimulus, stimuli, scare, response, physiological, anxiety, responses, rats, unexpected, loud, sudden, pathway, reaction, prey, neutral, measured, fear, disorder, shock, muscle, noise, syndrome, surprise, humans, stress, patterns, riders, symptoms, escape, warning, sounds, display, animals, images, potential, motor, movements, patients, easily, experienced, observed, strength, fish, attention, occur, individuals, giving, sound, flying, birth, lack.

Words that rhyme with startle:
artel, hartal, dartle, artal, bartel, smartle, bartle, hartel, hartl, bartol, hartle, bartl, apart till, art hill, art till, bar till, car till, depart till, far till, hartell, heart till, part il, part ill, part till, parte hill, parte hull, parte il, star till, start till.

Adjectives that are often used to describe startle:
potentiated, acoustic, exaggerated, sudden, enhanced, conditioned, excessive, slight, initial, auditory, modulated, surprise, tactile, violent, affective, involuntary, mild, occasional, elicited, abnormal, sensory, easy, conceptual, unexpected, body, continuous, overt, extreme, massive, momentary, generalized, puff.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective startle:
response, reflex, disease, reaction, modification, modulation, paradigm, effect, amplitude, potentiation, epilepsy, behavior, inhibition, reflexes, syndrome, magnitude, pattern, responses, habituation, facilitation, reactivity, conditioning, test, myoclonus, models, increases, reactions, equivalents, blink, phenomena, seizures, responsiveness, abnormalities, mutations, plasticity, deficits, measures, experiments, patterns, responsivity, elicitation, latency, testing, trials, augmentation.

Consonant match to startle:
star till, stare till, start till, store till.

Words that sound like startle:
startle, startled, startles, startler, starting, sortal, star shell, sterile, steril, starten, sartell, storting, stargell, smartle, statal, stairwell, storti, start in, storto, star drill, start, started, starts, starter, stardom, startup, stara, start-up, startegy, start up, staddle, staart, sea turtle, spurtle, start out, statoil, start-off, stratal, stadel, startsy, start off, steidl, strull, sarta, start on, star apple, spirtle, start anew, stair rail, starring, startling, hartle, starching, hartel, hartl, hartal, stewarding, stotting, stuart, sorta, sorrel, stort, sorel, stora, sorrell, storia, stowell, storable, saurel, stortz, startingly, soral, settle, cereal, seattle, serial, chortle, cerial, cyril, serta, sattel, satle, sarti, setal, cital, satel, siddharta, sarda, seral, ceryl, sartan, sarto, aortal, setl, sarcle, ceryle, dartle, sarton, scissortail, cytol.