surmise
To imagine or suspectTo imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
» The police surmised that the victim told them the truth.
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1 sensesTo imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
If, as I surmise, you see the ladies this evening, you might mention my intended visit.
vermuten, mutmaßen, annehmen
подозреватьpodozrevatʹ, предполага́тьpredpolagátʹ, предположи́тьpredpoložítʹ
припуска́тиprypuskáty, припусти́тиprypustýty
- infer from incomplete evidence
- imagine to be the case or true or probable
Examples
4 sentencesThe police surmised that the victim told them the truth.
Those are the main facts of the case, stripped of all surmise, and stated as baldly as possible.
"What do you think of my theory?" "It is all surmise."
de„Was halten Sie von meiner Theorie?“ – „Es sind alles Hirngespinste.“ — raggione
Long before Darwin's theory of evolution, Buffon had surmised that species evolved very slowly under different material circumstances.
deLange vor Darwins Evolutionstheorie hatte Buffon vermutet, dass sich Arten unter unterschiedlichen Umständen langsam entwickelt haben. — Yorwba
Translations
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Origin
From Old French surmis, past participle of surmetre, surmettre (“to accuse”), from sur- (“From Old French surmis, past participle of surmetre, surmettre (“to accuse”), from sur- (“upon”) + metre (“to put”).
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Forms
surmises, surmising, surmised, surmisedSynonyms
30 synonyms- imagine to be the case or true or probable:suspect
Word family
8 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.