amerikai:
brit:
1. Something unexpected.
It was a surprise to find out I owed twice as much as I thought I did.
2. The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
Imagine my surprise on learning I owed twice as much as I thought I did.
3. A dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. To undergo or witness something unexpected.
He doesn’t surprise easily.
4. To cause surprise.
5. To attack unexpectedly.
6. To take unawares.