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US
/səˈpɹaɪz, sɝˈpɹaɪz/
]
[ UK /səpɹˈaɪz/ ]
[ UK /səpɹˈaɪz/ ]
VERB
-
cause to be surprised
The news really surprised me - attack by storm; attack suddenly
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come upon or take unawares
He surprised an interesting scene
She surprised the couple
NOUN
- the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you
- the act of surprising someone
- a sudden unexpected event
How To Use surprise In A Sentence
- She jumped back with a little yelp of surprise.
- Second, at the same time, I'm somewhat surprised and mildly appalled that this story hasn't generated a lot of buzz in the blogosphere.
- They establish a colony on Ragol but this perfect planet soon unleashes a few surprises and all hell breaks loose.
- You will be surprised at the power of muscle memory. Times, Sunday Times
- Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared. The Berrybender Narratives
- Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
- As may be imagined, this capture, not so much a fluke as a surprise gave me cause to rethink my fishing plans on the lake.
- Hello, Swanson," he said without surprise.
- Arthur spun in his chair, not an ounce of surprise on his face.
- You could be surprised by which one you prefer. Times, Sunday Times
