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- adjective archaic, poetic
Startled awake or intoaction .
Etymologies
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up- + startled
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Examples
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That struck him, and upstartled when it struck, 20
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Somehow in her throat she repressed the upstartled cry, "Jim," by an effort that strained all her nerves and made her face bloodless white.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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