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What (who) is surprise - definition
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Suprise (album); Suprise; Surprise (album); Surprise (ship); Surprise (film); Surprising; Surprise (disambiguation); Surprises; Surprize; Surprise!; The Surprise
surprise
(surprises, surprising, surprised)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A surprise is an unexpected event, fact, or piece of news.
I have a surprise for you: We are moving to Switzerland!...
It may come as a surprise to some that a normal, healthy child is born with many skills...
It is perhaps no surprise to see another 60s singing star attempting a comeback.
N-COUNT: oft N to n
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Surprise is also an adjective.
Baxter arrived here this afternoon, on a surprise visit...
ADJ: ADJ n
2.
Surprise is the feeling that you have when something unexpected happens.
The Foreign Office in London has expressed surprise at these allegations...
'You mean he's going to vote against her?' Scobie asked in surprise...
I started working hard for the first time in my life. To my surprise, I found I liked it.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If something surprises you, it gives you a feeling of surprise.
We'll solve the case ourselves and surprise everyone...
It surprised me that a driver of Alain's experience should make those mistakes...
It wouldn't surprise me if there was such chaos after this election that another had to be held...
They were served lamb and rosemary and she surprised herself by eating greedily.
VERB: V n, it V n that/if, it V n that/if, V pron-refl
4.
If you surprise someone, you give them, tell them, or do something pleasant that they are not expecting.
Surprise a new neighbour with one of your favourite home-made dishes.
VERB: V n with n
5.
If you describe someone or something as a surprise, you mean that they are very good or pleasant although you were not expecting this.
...Senga MacFie, one of the surprises of the World Championships three months ago...
N-COUNT
6.
If you surprise someone, you attack, capture, or find them when they are not expecting it.
Marlborough led his armies across the Rhine and surprised the French and Bavarian armies near the village of Blenheim.
VERB: V n
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8.
If something takes you by surprise, it happens when you are not expecting it or when you are not prepared for it.
His question took his two companions by surprise...
PHRASE: V inflects
Surprise
·noun Anything that causes such a state or emotion.
II. Surprise ·noun To hold possession of; to Hold.
III. Surprise ·noun A dish covered with a crust of raised paste, but with no other contents.
IV. Surprise ·noun To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack.
V. Surprise ·noun The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.
VI. Surprise ·noun To strike with wonder, astonishment, or confusion, by something sudden, unexpected, or remarkable; to Confound; as, his conduct surprised me.
VII. Surprise ·noun To lead (one) to do suddenly and without forethought; to bring (one) into some unexpected state;
- with into; as, to be surprised into an indiscretion; to be surprised into generosity.
VIII. Surprise ·noun The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion excited by what is sudden and strange; a suddenly excited feeling of wonder or astonishment.
surprise
¦ noun
1. a feeling of mild astonishment or shock caused by something unexpected.
2. an unexpected or astonishing thing.
3. [as modifier] Bell-ringing denoting a complex method of change-ringing: surprise major.
¦ verb
1. cause to feel surprise.
2. capture, attack, or discover suddenly and unexpectedly.
Phrases
take someone/thing by surprise attack or capture someone or something unexpectedly.
?(take someone by surprise) happen unexpectedly to someone.
Derivatives
surprised adjective
surprisedly adverb
surprising adjective
surprisingly adverb
surprisingness noun
Origin
ME (in the sense 'unexpected seizure or attack'): from OFr., feminine past participle of surprendre, from med. L. superprehendere 'seize'.
Wikipedia
Surprise
Surprise (or, rarely, surprize) may refer to:
- Surprise (emotion), a brief emotional state experienced as the result of an unexpected significant event
Examples of use of surprise
1. Surprise, surprise, the taxes are increasing massively.
2. Surprise, surprise, neither strange therapy merits inclusion in Cherie‘s memoirs.
3. "Remember, it was Surprise, Surprise with Cilla Black and Christopher Biggins," he says.
4. Surprise or no surprise, this latest move is still untypical of the Bank‘s past moves.
5. Except –– surprise, surprise –– taxpayers often do not receive reliable information about the exceptions.