Startle is valid Scrabble Word

Is startle a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is startle valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for STARTLE in dictionary:

VERB:

to frighten or surprise
cause to feel sudden shock or alarm
slightly surprise or frighten
To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.
To deter; to cause to deviate.
to stimulate to action
move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm

NOUN:

A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger.
a sudden involuntary movement

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to frighten or surprise suddenly

Words related to STARTLE

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Words that contain STARTLE

startled9 startler8 startles8 startlers9 startlement13 startlements14

How to use STARTLE in a sentence

The elder Mrs Ottley enjoyed these evenings, and the most modern conversation never seemed to startle her.
These words would startle us, if we heard them for the first time.
I do not know that these figures would startle us if we took the area of the whole of Europe.
The noise seemed to startle her, and she sank back into her chair and sat there white and motionless during the remainder of the session.
I used to arrange, on my way, well-turned sentences with which to please her, and by which I expected to startle her into some intimation of her feelings toward me.
It would startle all concerned, Jaffier and Celestino Rey especially.
This is done by ringing bells preferably to sounding whistles, as these are more likely to startle horses.
Stevens rang so loudly at the door, as to quite startle his wife and the charity-girl, both of whom had fallen into a sound sleep, as they sat together awaiting his return.
They can startle you, though, and they can make an awful mess.
The Indian talks of blood and wounds and death in a commonplace, matter-of-fact way that may startle you.

Then they would startle the buffalo, and yet would keep them from breaking through the circle.
It took a great deal to startle a theatrical publicity man, yet here was one who looked as though he had seen a ghost.
In the same way we advertise sermon themes, usually intended to startle the pious and provoke the ungodly.
The Assyrian artist seeks to please by the elegance of his forms and the harmony of his hues, not to startle by a display of bright and strongly-contrasted colors.
A loud noise will startle fish, and cause them to dart away, so we conclude that the sound must have reached them through the water.
Nothing, indeed, which recent investigation has established ought to startle the American woman more.
But, unhappily, we find in it, as I imagine, the very things which so startle Mr.
They might startle on being first awaked from the dreams of the night, but they would rub their eyes at once, and look the spectres boldly in the face.
It seemed to startle him, and he struck it dead with his hand.
Hence he ordered his artillery to be discharged, somewhat high, so that he might frighten and startle them, without doing them any harm.
He was growing thin, and he was so nervous that the falling of a dead leaf from a tree would startle him.
He is a peaceable citizen in spite of the peculiar race crimes which startle the public.
The Alaskan could not be moved, but it might be possible to startle the girl into breaking the engagement.
It was just enough to startle me into contempt for myself.
They startle us with a new glimpse into the human soul, that mysterious thing, more mysterious the more we note its workings.
The lightning, the storm, the earthquake startle the rude man, and he sees the divine in the extraordinary.
But when Mapuhi exposed the pearl to his sight he managed to suppress the startle it gave him, and to maintain a careless, commercial expression on his face.
It was a case of flesh-wound in the thigh, and the whole limb was swollen almost to bursting, so cold as to startle by the touch, and almost as transparent as glass.
She does not startle the world with a combination of strange colours, nor entertain her friends with a peculiarity of style and make.
The sound seemed to startle Charles from his momentary calm.
To startle him back into hiding would have only deferred my getting truly rid of him, so I was most tiptoe and diplomatic in my doings.
To startle the South to madness, so that every step she takes, in her blindness, is one step more toward ruin, is much.

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