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Answer for the clue "Cause to jump, maybe ", 5 letters:
scare

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Etymology 1 n. A minor fright. Etymology 2 vb. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

Usage examples of scare.

He was like an acrophobe edging along a precipitous path, scared to look down, afraid of losing his balance and falling accidentally, afraid too of the impulse that might lead him to plunge purposefully into the void.

I have also with soberness considered since, did so offend the Lord, that even in my childhood he did scare and affrighten me with fearful dreams, and did terrify me with fearful visions.

As we all witnessed during the anthrax scare last fall, we must improve and streamline our methods of communicating with the public.

Had Rossi actually looked through them himself, or had he merely had time to list the possibilities in that archive before being scared away from it?

He had scared Bester the moment they met, when he had fixed him with those cold, dark eyes.

Harry nodded, with no hint of his usual braggadocio, looking like nothing more than a scared little boy.

He was surprised that anything in this life could still scare him, but as he looked at this twist of wreckage and bodies, a cluttered sacrifice, he understood that he was just a common brawler, incapable of anything close to this display.

He preached, favoring Moses and Abraham, and Burnside scared himself half to death.

Fortunately, Dum-Dum said he had just the thing for them, a special concoction of his own devising, consisting of an astringent compounded of alum, sharkskin oil, hydrocortisone and a butylated cream to hold the ingredients into a semi-solid mass, guaranteed to either scare hemorrhoids back where they came from or simply dry the whole mess up into something that could be snipped off with a pair of surgical scissors.

When I was a litigator, I actually saw lawyers who were scared of stepping into court.

Musgrave and Lawley were both confidingly asleep, while he sat up alert and vigilant maturing a mischievous plot that had for its object the awakening and scaring of both the innocent sleepers.

Coker Minimus, whose round scared eyes looked out over the top of the sheet.

He wanted so desperately to believe it that he imagined himself shouting at the mongrel for scaring him half out of his mind.

Tell them part of the deal Newsome made was that he was to scare his own men into quitting.

He acted scared, but back of all that nigra shout was something cunning.