Words and phrases that have a meaning related to startle: (159 results)
Often used in the same context:
frighten, terrify, disorient, unnerve, astonish, amuse, nauseate, rattle, annoy, disorientate, mesmerize, fascinate, deafen, horrify, hypnotize, appall, stun, bewilder, irritate, awaken, disturb, dazzle, mystify, shriek, transfix, provoke, captivate, scream, tantalize, spook, confuse, flinch, elicit, zap, squeal, jolting, excite, perturb, disconcert, fluster, growling, hyperventilate, waken, awes, tickle, terrorize, cower, rouse, amaze, bemuse, enthrall, overpower, befuddle, stomp, pummel, spellbind, enrage, dishearten, titillate, offend, vocalize, cringe, perplex, confound, electrocute, exhilarate, dumbfound, shrilling, astound, twitching, desensitize, baffle, intimidate, appal, enchant, bewitch, mishear, recoil, habituate, induce, incapacitate, tease, overwhelm, yelping, traumatize, evince, evoke, irk, taunt, slumbering, whinny, infuriate, scaring, faze, rile, exclaim, cawing, arouse, prickling, palpitate, blurt, chitter, shivering, overloads, blinking, breathlessness, flaring, hemolysis, irritability, rocking, salivation, slowing, tremor, arousal, blurring, coarsening, diuresis, dizziness, dorsiflexion, effervescence, engorgement, electrodermal, reflex, autonomic, photic, stimulation, psychophysiologic, antidromic, orthostatic, pavlovian, phasic, psychogalvanic, vasomotor, behavioral, compensatory, conditioned, consummatory, evoked, galvanic, homeostatic
More specific:
boggle, moro reflex, rear back, shy, startle reaction, startle reflex, startle response, wince
Appears in the definition of:
boggle
More general:
Also try:ball over, blow out of the water, floor, move, physiological reaction, shock, take aback
— Nouns for startle: response, reflex, disease, reaction, modification, modulation, paradigm, effect, amplitude, potentiation, epilepsy, more...
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