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surprise
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of SURPRISE
1
to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected <I was very surprised when my parents offered to pay the down payment on our house>
Synonyms amaze, astonish, astound, bowl over, dumbfound (also dumfound), flabbergast, floor, rock, shock, startle, stun, stupefy, thunderstrike
Related Words befuddle, bewilder, blindside, blow away, confound, confuse, daze, discomfit, disconcert, dismay, jar, muddle, nonplus, perplex, shake up
Phrases knock for a loop, take aback, take by surprise
2
to lie in wait for and attack by surprise <FBI agents surprised the counterfeiters in their own base of operations>
Variants of SURPRISE
surprise also surprize
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