startle

They startle viewers, rouse viewers, occasionally put off and occasionally turn on viewers.

The group acknowledged that the tactic “was meant to startle people.”

The French women certainly talk with a freedom which would startle an English or American female.

The striking originality of this idea will startle any one who has never heard of such a thing before.

"You oughtn't to slip up an' s-startle a lady that-a-way," she said with grave rebuke, and Hale looked humbled.

While the Constitution lasts, they are repressed; they spring up to annoy and startle us only from its grave.

But Merriwell feared to startle the old man, and therefore he did not call.