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takes by surprisephrasepresent tense third-person singular of take by surprise to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpectedI was taken by surprise when I heard the news and had trouble getting my thoughts together. amazes, astonishes, astounds, bowls over, dumbfounds(also dumfounds), flabbergasts, floors, rocks, shocks, startles, stuns, stupefies, surprises, thunderstrikes befuddles, bewilders, blindsides, blows away, confounds, confuses, dazes, discomfits, disconcerts, dismays, jars, muddles, nonpluses(or nonplusses), perplexes, shakes up knocks for a loop, takes aback |