startled

He finds the medication in the cabinet over the sink, but is startled by the sudden appearance of an older, suit-clad man behind him.

Moments later, the smuggler - a tall figure with bright dyed blonde hair - turned away sharply, like a startled fox, and vanished down a narrow path into the woods.

One man startled us by saying he was a Palestinian who lived in Ireland and had once fought with and killed people for the Irish Republican Army but is now devoted to promoting peace.

He said he had been under the influence of drugs and his dogs had run into the house and startled the children.

Cinnamon fled her enclosure via a gate left accidentally open on 13 September, after being startled by a tractor mower.