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unhesitatingly, determinedly, doggedly, securely: Slowly but
surely, the Great Bamboni stepped out onto the tightrope
stretched across the Reichenbach Falls.
surface n. 1 exterior, covering, outside, top, skin, integument,
fa‡ade, face, boundary, interface, superficies; side, plane:
Most of the earth's surface is covered by water. How many
surfaces on an icosahedron? 2 on the surface. superficially, to
all appearances, at first glance, outwardly, to the casual
observer, extrinsically, ostensibly: It looks pretty enough on
the surface, but it is rotten underneath.
--v. 3 appear, show up, emerge, materialize, arise, rise, come
up, Colloq pop up, crop up: Guess who surfaced after ten years
in Tierra del Fuego! An enormous turtle surfaced near our boat.
4 pave, concrete, tarmac: They are surfacing the road in front
of my house.
surfeit n. over-abundance, superabundance, plethora, glut, excess,
surplus, oversupply, overdose, satiety, overflow, flood, deluge,
superfluity, nimiety: There has been a surfeit of those dolls
on the market. She is suffering from a surfeit of rich food and
alcohol.
surfeited adj. gorged, overfed, satiated, sated, stuffed, glutted, jaded:
He passed the sleeping surfeited diners and stole into the
library unseen.
surge v. 1 swell, wave, billow, bulge, heave, roll, undulate, well
forth or up, rise and fall, ebb and flow, pulsate; rush, gush,
pour, flood, stream, flow: The sea surged through the narrow
gorge with a roar. The crowd surged round their hero.
--n. 2 swell, wave, billow, roller, whitecap, white horse,
breaker, comber, upsurge, eddy, rush, gush, flood, stream, flow:
The raft was caught by a surge and tossed high up on the beach.
surly adj. unpleasant, rude, crusty, cantankerous, curmudgeonly,
churlish, crabby, crabbed, choleric, splenetic, dyspeptic,
bilious, temperamental, cross, crotchety, grouchy, grumpy,
bearish, testy, touchy, short-tempered, ill-tempered,
bad-tempered, ill-natured, bad-natured, ill-humoured, peevish,
quarrelsome, argumentative, obnoxious, uncivil, rough,