Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
despertou-o dos seus pensamentos com um sobressalto
English translation:
woke him from his reverie with a start
Portuguese term
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Native in: Portuguese 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Spanish to Portuguese, and 2 more.
despertou-o dos seus pensamentos com um sobressalto
-Estás a pensar em Y, não é?
startled him from his thoughts?
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Register: idiomatic
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Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
woke him from his reverie with a start
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/sentences-with-the-word/re...
Shipp's metallic chords against Brown's restless drumming and fitful swing are spine-tingling on Part Two, and his stately, harpsichord-like reverie entrancing on Part Three.: Now shaken from his reverie, stunned, Paterno walked over to the golf cart and crouched and shook the hand of the champ.: In the end, the air of melancholic reverie begins to get a little cloying.
start
ˈstärt
VERB
started; starting; starts
to move suddenly and violently : spring
to react with a sudden brief involuntary movement
to issue with sudden force
to come into being, activity, or operation
to protrude or seem to protrude
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Nancy Berube
: This is a very eloquent way of translating it! 👍
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Nick Taylor
: Excellent, couldn't have done better!
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You're most kind!
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Native in: Hungarian , English (Variant: US)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Hungarian to English, and 13 more.
(the voice) woke him up with a jolt from his thoughts
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Environmental Translator | Port. > Eng.
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Portuguese to English
jolted him out of deep thought
To cause one to come out of some inert, insensible, or unconscious state in a very abrupt or startling manner.
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Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 3 more.
startled him and disrupted his train of thought
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/train of thought
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Adrian MM.
: I was going to post '...derailing' his train of thought.....
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Well, that's interesting... Thanks for your "agree".
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Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean, UK, South African)
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
Brought him back from his thoughts... with a start / ...with a jolt
"As he finished reading, a slight sound behind him BROUGHT HIM BACK WITH A START to the world of present realities."
"A scream BROUGHT HIM BACK WITH A JOLT"
Portuguese to English, English to Portug
Native in: English
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
bruptly shattered his/her contemplative frame of mind
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Andrew Bramhall
: Don't you mean AAAbruptly???!!!
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I certainly do, but dont know how to edit answers :-)
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Reference comments
startled and awoke him from his thoughts
I think you have the idea in your mind: it’s a question of adding awoke:
Startled and awoke him from his thoughts
startle - assustar - https://de.pons.com/übersetzung/englisch-portugiesisch/start...
The stress provoques statle: In children and adults, intensity of the startle response may be affected by stress or anxiety - https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/hyperekplexia/
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