Startle

Hey, the description is not incorrect — but the reveal of the item is still shocking enough to startle poor Hermes (Phil LaMarr).

Turning on your windshield wipers randomly to startle the shit out of you.

My face was covered by the sleeping bag, but the group told me to never try and startle them but to always remain still with no sudden movements.

Unexpected physical contact makes me startle; when on the rowing machine at the gym recently a man put his hand on my back and asked how my workout went, I jumped out of my skin.

I needed to startle him, and I got a starter's pistol, and I fired it when he wasn't looking and I got a far worse reaction.

Yet while Pele’s legend grew into international reverence, Maradona’s ability to surprise and startle on the field developed a darker edge as he became addicted to cocaine during his playing days in the 1980s.

A Columbia University study in fruit flies has identified serotonin as a chemical that triggers the body's startle response, the automatic deer-in-the-headlights reflex that freezes the body momentarily in response to a potential threat.

For example, both sea cucumbers and sea pens apparently use brilliant, flashing patterns to startle predators.

Some questions might startle an American: How often do you quarrel with your family?

The most famous is Balwinder Singh Sandhu’s peach to startle Gordon Greenidge, shouldering arms in the 1983 World Cup final.

Whether outside or indoors, the festivities of Halloween ay startle your pet and cause them to run away.

The twists and turns in the plot are meant to startle in a very ‘boo’ kind of way.

Another tactic used by some frogs is to "scream", the sudden loud noise tending to startle the predator.

A strike, whether or not it is blocked, can startle the target and break his or her concentration.

For this the change in the acoustic startle reflex of rats with alarm pheromone-induced anxiety (i.e. reduction of defensiveness) has been measured.

However, Kurosawa did not want to smother the young actor's immense vitality, and Mifune's rebellious character electrified audiences in much the way that Marlon Brando 's defiant stance would startle American film audiences a few years later.

The acoustic startle reflex response to a sound when sensing anxiety sweat was larger than when sensing exercise-induced sweat, as measured by electromyograph analysis of the orbital muscle, which is responsible for the eyeblink component.