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Startle

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97%8Exact Match!
verb

• affect with wonder

96%5Exact Match!
noun

• someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

• a mental representation of some haunting experience

verb

• frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action

95%5Exact Match!
noun

• fear resulting from the awareness of danger

• a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event

• an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger

• a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time

verb

• fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

• warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness

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New York Times16 Aug 2024 Down 9
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