Meaning

3 senses

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, often, transitive)To discover, infer or figure out.

  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, transitive)To study or size up, to check out (examine).

  3. (UK, obsolete, transitive)To arrest for suspicious behaviour.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. I just can't suss it out.

    deIch komme einfach nicht dahinter.

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  2. I'm trying to suss her out.

    deIch versuche, aus ihr schlau zu werden.

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  3. He's got you sussed.

    deEr hat dich durchschaut.

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Origin

Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus. From suspect; originally

Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus.

From suspect; originally suss out (“to discover or figure out”).

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Forms

susses, sussing, sussed, sussed
Base formsuss · to suss
3rd person singularsusses
Present participlesussing
Past simplesussed
Past participlesussed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysuss
he, she, itsusses

Past simpleLesson

all personssussed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sussed
he, she, ithas sussed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill suss

Word family

2 related words
Relatedsussed
Derivedsuss out

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
suspicionB1suspiciousB2suspiciouslyB2sustainB2sustainabilitysustainableC1
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