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View definitions for startled

startled

adjective as in frightened

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She says the guides told her the guards were needed to "prevent situations where we interacted with locals and startled them".

From BBC

In video posted to social media, large flames can be seen rising from a check-in desk as a number of startled passengers look on.

From BBC

But he said they were startled by their results.

A lazy, lovely afternoon at Chavez Ravine was startled awake Sunday by three blue-curdling screams.

Dan Burton has trapped hundreds of wild pigs for clients of his wildlife control company in Salinas, but even he was startled when he cut one of them open and found blue meat inside.

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

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