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Startlingly :: Startle (n.) A sudden motion or shock caused by an unexpected alarm, surprise, or apprehension of danger..

Subitany :: Subitaneous (a.) Sudden; hasty.

Hiccough :: Hiccough (n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough..

Unequal :: Unequal (a.) Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain..

Detonate :: Detonate (v. t.) To cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.

Shiver :: Shiver (n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural..

Blast :: Blast (n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight..

Hunch :: Hunch (v. t.) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust suddenly.

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror..

Flush :: Flush (v. i.) To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush..

Jolt :: "Jolt (v. t.) To cause to shake with a sudden up and down motion, as in a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers..

Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..

Twinge :: Twinge (n.) A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side..

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place..

Beat :: Beat (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8..

Douse :: Douse (v. t.) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

Flash :: Flash (v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.

Whisk :: Whisk (v. i.) To move nimbly at with velocity; to make a sudden agile movement.

Scare :: Scare (v. t.) To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.

Flashing :: Flashing (n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.

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