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- (verb): To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected.
- (verb): To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
- (verb): To undergo or witness something unexpected.
- (verb): To cause surprise.
- (verb): To attack unexpectedly.
- (verb): To take unawares.
- (adjective): Caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event.
- It surprises me that I owe twice as much as I thought I did.
- He doesn’t know that I’m in the country – I thought I’d turn up at his house and surprise him.
- He doesn’t surprise easily.