surface

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of SURFACE

to come to one's attention especially gradually or unexpectedly <no information regarding the stolen car has surfaced since the police found it abandoned on a country road>

Synonyms come up, crop (up), emerge, materialize, spring (up), surface

Related Words appear, come out, show up, turn up; chance, come, come about, fall out, go (on), go off, hap, happen, occur, pass, transpire; interfere, interpose, intervene, intrude

to penetrate the surface (as of water) from below <a submarine surfaced on the starboard side of the aircraft carrier>

Synonyms break, surface

Related Words emerge, rise

Near Antonyms dive, drop, drown, founder, plunge, sink, submerge, submerse

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