An amount or quantity in excess of what is needed, In law, the residuum of an estate after the debts and legacies are paid, That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus, adjective_ Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words, more than is needed, desired, or required, Being more than or in excess of what is needed or required_ synonym_ superfluous

Unexpected, noun_ the act of surprising someone, Something not expected, The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion excited by what is sudden and strange; a suddenly excited feeling of wonder or astonishment, transitive verb_ To cause to feel wonder, astonishment, or amazement, as at something unanticipated, To encounter or discover suddenly or unexpectedly; take or catch unawares, To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted, verb_ intransitive To cause surprise, come upon or take unawares, cause to be surprised

taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment, Caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event, verb_ Simple past tense and past participle of surprise

Present participle of surprise, noun_ The action of the verb to surprise, adjective_ That is or are a surprise, Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment, causing surprise or wonder or amazement

A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage having two or four seats, historical A light American horse-drawn carriage seating two or four people, a county in southeastern England on the Thames

UK Anything, such as a fence or border that surrounds something, A method of hunting some animals, such as buffaloes, by surrounding them and driving them over a precipice, or into a deep ravine or other place from which they cannot escape, the area in which something exists or lives, verb_ surround with a wall in order to fortify, surround so as to force to give up, envelop completely, transitive verb_ To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle, To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication, To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

Simple past tense and past participle of surround, adjective_ confined on all sides

closely encircling, Inclosing; encircling, which surrounds something, verb_ Present participle of surround, noun_ outlaying area; area in proximity to something, environment, The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions

close observation of a person or group (usually by the police), law In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places, Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion

To look over the parts, features, or contents of; view broadly, To conduct a statistical survey on, To make a survey, transitive verb_ To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook, To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine, To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry, verb_ To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire, plot a map of (land), To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine, noun_ The act of surveying; a general view, as from above, The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of, as any part of the earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it, A species of auction, in which farms are disposed of for a period covering three lives.