Meaning of surprise in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• Something unexpected.

  Example: It was a surprise to find out I owed twice as much as I thought I did.

• The feeling that something unexpected has happened.

  Example: Imagine my surprise on learning I owed twice as much as I thought I did.

• A dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents.

verb

• To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected.

  Example: 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.

  Example: He doesn’t know that I’m in the country – I thought I’d turn up at his house and surprise him.

• To undergo or witness something unexpected.

  Example: He doesn’t surprise easily.

• To cause surprise.

• To attack unexpectedly.

• To take unawares.