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astonish collapse

bushwhack collapse: cut one's way through the woods or bush; live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla

pounce upon collapse

ambush collapse: the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise; wait in hiding to attack

all of a sudden collapse: without warning; "all at once, he started shouting"

without warning collapse

extemporize collapse

unhatched collapse: not yet hatched

uncontrived collapse

caught short collapse

taken unawares collapse

unmade collapse: (of a bed) not having the sheets and blankets set in order; "an unmade bed with tangled sheets and blankets"

undevised collapse

ad lib collapse: without advance preparation; "he spoke ad lib"

surprise collapse: the act of surprising someone; a sudden unexpected event; the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you; cause to be surprised; "The news really surprised me"; come upon or take unawares; "She surprised the couple"; "He surprised an interesting scene"

play by ear collapse

go off half cocked collapse

come upon collapse

unawares collapse: suddenly and unexpectedly; "rain caught them unawares"; "sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares"- A.Lincoln; without forethought or plan; inadvertently; "came upon the diamond unawares"

improvised collapse: done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"

extemporaneous collapse

unplanned collapse: without apparent forethought or prompting or planning; "an unplanned economy"; "accepts an unplanned order"; "an unplanned pregnancy"; "unplanned remarks"

abruptly collapse: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"

all at once collapse

suddenly collapse: happening unexpectedly; "suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side"

impulsively collapse

impetuously collapse: in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions; "he often acts impulsively and later regrets it"

improvise collapse: perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding"; manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks"

bob up collapse

surprisingly collapse: in a surprising manner; "he was surprisingly friendly"

fall upon collapse: find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"

unarranged collapse

pop up collapse

surprised collapse: taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment; "surprised by her student's ingenuity"; "surprised that he remembered my name"; "a surprised expression"

impromptu collapse: an extemporaneous speech or remark; "a witty impromptu must not sound premeditated"; a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation

unpremeditated collapse: not prepared or planned in advance; "asked an unpremeditated question"; not premeditated

plop collapse: the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash; with a short hollow thud; "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"; drop with the sound of something falling into water; drop something with a plopping sound

unstudied collapse: lacking knowledge gained by study often in a particular field; "is unstudied in Latin as he is in may other matters"; not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu; "an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved"; "simple unstudied charm"

unorganized collapse: not having or belonging to a structured whole; "unorganized territories lack a formal government"; not affiliated in a trade union; "the workers in the plant were unorganized"

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