Synonyms for startled

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1. startled(adj)

   excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement

   "students startled by the teacher's quiet return"; "the sudden fluttering of the startled pigeons"; "her startled expression"

   Antonyms:
   not surprised, unsurprised

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1. List of paraphrases for "startled":

   surprised, scared, frightened, caught

How to pronounce startled?

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Indian

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How to use startled in a sentence?

1. Kevin Moore:

   He kind of startled me, he says,' Well, what are you doing here ?'.

2. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

   A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

3. John Marshall:

   So, if the cow is soft and nurturing that's how I will paint it and if the cow is sort of angry and startled then I'll try and treat that in the temperate. So, they portray a different thing and it's the thing that is keeping them unique, keeping a sense that each one is different and it's kind of more of an emotional portrayal than a photographic one.

4. Jen Principe and Toni Musso:

   When the police came, he got very startled and at that point he said,' They're going to arrest me.' And I said,' I won't let them do that. Just stay with me,'.

5. Nathan Harman:

   I only saw one person, he sort of snapped up, stood up, and turned around. He looked startled. We made eye contact.

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