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startle

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Previously, scientists have reported that hexadecanal reduces stress in mice, while other research has shown that humans release the compound in our feces, skin, and breath, and that it might affect our startle response.

Not only is this comfortable for your little one, but it suppresses their startle reflexes which encourages them to sleep longer and keeps them warm without the use of loose blankets, which can be dangerous.

They startle viewers, rouse viewers, occasionally put off and occasionally turn on viewers.

The group acknowledged that the tactic “was meant to startle people.”

The French women certainly talk with a freedom which would startle an English or American female.

The striking originality of this idea will startle any one who has never heard of such a thing before.

"You oughtn't to slip up an' s-startle a lady that-a-way," she said with grave rebuke, and Hale looked humbled.

While the Constitution lasts, they are repressed; they spring up to annoy and startle us only from its grave.

But Merriwell feared to startle the old man, and therefore he did not call.

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On this page you'll find 80 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to startle, such as: agitate, alarm, amaze, astonish, astound, and awe.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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