Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which surprises.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who surprises.

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  • noun someone who surprises

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a captor who uses surprise to capture the victim

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Examples

  • I guess the bottom line, GOD must be very bored knowing all that is without ever having anything to look forward to because you can't surprise the surpriser when the surpriser is the all knowing GOD.

    redblueamerica.com blogs 2008

  • My surpriser-in-advance this week is Martin Walker, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and director of the A.

    Western Europe demographic picture not so clear cut after all | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Ever the surpriser, Smirky just launched what is presumably the last topping on the sundae of his legacy: a full-scale war on reproductive rights.

    Max and the Marginalized: Bush's wars: Afghanistan, Iraq and... Contraception? 2008

  • The third day of our journey (6th February), they brought us to a town of their own, seated near a fair river, on the side of a hill, environed with a dyke of eight feet broad, and a thick mud wall of ten feet high, sufficient to stop a sudden surpriser.

    Sir Francis Drake Revived Philip [Editor] Nichols

  • The third day of our journey (6th February), they brought us to a town of their own, seated near a fair river, on the side of a hill, environed with a dyke of eight feet broad, and a thick mud wall of ten feet high, sufficient to stop a sudden surpriser.

    Sir Francis Drake Revived. Paras. 100-199 1909

  • He knows that some day -- unless he is shot first -- his Judas will set to work, the trap will be laid, and he will be the surprised instead of a surpriser at a stick-up.

    Sixes and Sevens O. Henry 1886

  • It will be a world surpriser that beats one horse-power developed by one pound of coal.

    James Watt Andrew Carnegie 1877

  • It was surrounded by "a dyke of eight feet broad, and a thick mud wall of ten feet high, sufficient to stop a sudden surpriser.

    On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

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