surface

³surface

verb

sur·facedsur·fac·ing

Definition of SURFACE

transitive verb

1

: to give a surface to: as a : to plane or make smooth b : to apply the surface layer to <surface a highway>

2

: to bring to the surface <surface a sunken ship>

intransitive verb

1

: to work on or at the surface

2

: to come to the surface

3

: to come into public view : show up <letters that have recently surfaced>

— sur·fac·er noun

Examples of SURFACE

1. The whale surfaced and then dove back down.
2. The information surfaced many years later.
3. After several years, the actress surfaced in a comedy.
4. The road needs to be surfaced again.

First Known Use of SURFACE

1778

Related to SURFACE

Synonyms: come up, crop (up), emerge, materialize, spring (up), arise

Related Words: appear, come out, show up, turn up; chance, come, come about, fall out, go (on), go off, hap, happen, occur, pass, transpire; interfere, interpose, intervene, intrude

Near Antonyms: dive, drop, drown, founder, plunge, sink, submerge, submerse

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