surprise
/sɚˈpɹaɪ̯z/ verb B1- To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected. · It surprises me that I owe twice as much as I thought I did.
- To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise. · He doesn’t know that I’m in the country – I thought I’d turn up at his house and surprise him.· My boss surprised me into admitting I left work early last week.
- To undergo or witness something unexpected. · He doesn’t surprise easily.
- To cause surprise.
- To attack unexpectedly.
- To take unawares. · I surprised a raccoon scavenging through the garbage last night.
He/she/it surprises · Past surprised · Past participle surprised · -ing form surprising
Verb forms
- Base form
- surprise
- He/she/it
- surprises
- Past
- surprised
- Past participle
- surprised
- -ing form
- surprising
From the library
Which way?”, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was!
As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit’s little white kid gloves while she was talking.
“How surprised he’ll be when he finds out who I am!
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