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Significados de startle en inglés

portugués
amendrontar
español
sobresaltar

To stimulate to action.

sobresaltar

A sudden involuntary movement.

Uso de startle en inglés
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Fifty years later his designs still have the power to startle us.
The Guardian
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Even seeing them for the second time, they startle and surprise me.
Hull zero three
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In some of your story-telling ballads the provincial phrases sometimes startle me.
Life and Remains of John Clare, The "Northamptonshire Peasant Po...
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Why, the very sight of you might startle her into her grave.
Put Yourself in His Place
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My hope that this would startle them into betraying themselves was disappointed.
Helen of troy
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I shouldn't have said anything, because all I did was startle her.
The Sea of Monsters
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I hesitated to pull the bell: no, it would startle Mrs. Sloman.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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Earthquakes startle, but the firmness of the solid earth attracts no observation.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah
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These are visceral, powerful and haunting images that startle on first viewing.
The Irish Times
10
This appeared for a moment to startle the captain and his men.
The Red Record / Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lync...
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It is so still here at night, the slightest noises startle me.
Miss or Mrs.?
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What they had seen had been enough to startle the bravest person.
The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas; Or, Fun and Frolic in the S...
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Science is decent, modest; does not try to startle, but to instruct.
Over the Teacups
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The Fed doesn't want to startle investors, because that would be disruptive.
Reuters
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Her voice was not unkind, but its sinew caused me to startle.
The distant hours
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The words seem to startle, like an electric shock, the whole audience.
The Recreations of a Country Parson
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amendrontar
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