surprise

/səˈpɹaɪz/

noun

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.

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