Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To escape; escape from.
- To cause to start; startle.
- To start up.
- To be escaped from.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete Same as
astert .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
start up, tojump . - verb obsolete To
get away ,escape .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just looking at a list of Google Books would be barely astart.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Suspect When You Can Find Out? 2010
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If you can point me to where predictions based on the model were published and reviewed that have since been shown to be true and not due to any other factors that would be astart.
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'Always set the alarms carefully, and disable them and I 19 astart the vehicle from a distance, however short a time you've been away.'
Penalty Francis, Dick 1997
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As people turned half astart to look at Robin bending over her desk or walking about among them in her modest dress, so also did they turn to look after him as he went in springing march along the streets.
Robin Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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She woke astart, and in her sleep's amaze, * Swayed as the swaying branch in rain we see;
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The savages had been astart as early as ourselves.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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They would follow at his heels, almost on their bellies, for fear o 'being seen by the Squire's men; but when fairly astart for the game, they could show as much breeding as the best-trained pointer i' the parish.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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First, both Hitler and Muhammad shared a deep and abiding passion for killing Jews, though Adolf’s six million Muhammad would call only “astart.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Official Miami-Dade Transit Approval of the “Leaving Islam” Ads 2010
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I’m not suggesting that height and weight are the only indicators for making it in basketball and football but it is astart.
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I’m not suggesting that height and weight are the only indicators for making it in basketball and football but it is astart.
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