startled

startle | American Dictionary

startle
verb[ T ]
us/ˈstɑrt̬·əl/
to surprise a person or animal:
She startled him when she said hello.

startling

adjectiveus/ˈstɑrt̬·əl·ɪŋ/
We’ve made some startling discoveries.

Examples of startle

startle
The results of these exercises are often startling.
One weakness immediately presents itself, the obvious novelty of the theoretical field for many contributors, yielding blunders startling in published work.
The imbalance in the number of people living in the set number of constituencies in each region, however, is startling.
The judgment was peculiar in that it relied upon absence to startling effect.
This assertion would have been unremarkable in 1901; in 2001 it probably looks fresh and maybe even startling to many readers.
Under conditions of threat, the eye-blink startle response is larger than under neutral or positive conditions.
The sudden open space after the road walk was startling and made my presence feel insignificant.
Involvement of the dorsal periaqueductal gray in the loss of fear potentiated startle accompanied by high foot shock training.
Based on animal studies, increased startle responses are postulated to represent an increase in amygdala function.
Even if attention is restricted just to vision, the diversity among perceptibles is startling.
Lesions of the amygdala, but not of the cerebellum, block conditioned fear measured with the potentiated startle paradigm.
Fear-potentiated startle is another measure that may be used with even very young children, and could shed light on the development of stress neurobiology.
Neural systems involved in fear and anxiety measured with fear-potentiated startle.
Corticotrophin-releasing factor potentiates acoustic startle in rats : blockade by chlordiazepoxide.
The (perhaps) startling result is that heap-allocated frames have almost the same cost as stack frames.
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