Surprise vs Stupefy - What's the difference?
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Something not expected.
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, title= (attributive) Unexpected.
The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
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To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted.
To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
To undergo or witness something unexpected.
To cause surprise.
To attack unexpectedly.
To take unawares.
Unexpected.
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, chapter=4 To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle.
Surprise is a related term of stupefy.
As verbs the difference between surprise and stupefy
is that surprise is to cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted while stupefy is to dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle.As a noun surprise
is something not expected.As an adjective surprise
is unexpected.surprise
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- They had begun brightly but the opening goal was such a blow to their confidence it almost came as a surprise when Walcott, running through the inside-right channel, beat the offside trap and, checking back on to his left foot, turned a low shot beyond Allan McGregor in the Scotland goal.
Moldova 0-5 England, passage=England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.}}
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Synonyms
* unexpected * (feeling) astonishmentDerived terms
* take by surpriseVerb
(surpris)- It surprises me that I owe twice as much as I thought I did.
- He doesn’t know that I’m in the country – I thought I’d turn up at his house and surprise him.
- He doesn’t surprise easily.
Adjective
(-)citation, passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}} 1000 English basic words ----