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    [Noun]  | "sur*mise" | \ sər-ˈmīz \


    1: a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture

    Origin: 1569 ;

     Middle English, allegation, charge, from Anglo-French, from feminine of surmis, past participle of surmettre to place on, suppose, accuse, from Medieval Latin supermittere, from Late Latin, to place on, from Latin super- + mittere to let go, send;

    [Verb]  | "sur*mise" | \ sər-ˈmīz \


    1: to form a notion of from scanty evidence : imagine, infer

    Origin: 1647 ;

     Middle English, to allege, from surmise, noun;

    [Noun]  | "surmises" 


    1: an opinion or judgment based on little or no evidence;


      * e.g., " ... my surmise is that the couple's good news is the announcement that they are going to have a baby "



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    [Noun]  | "surmise" 


    1: an opinion or judgment based on little or no evidence;


      * e.g., " ... my surmise is that the couple's good news is the announcement that they are going to have a baby "



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    [Verb]  | "surmises" 


    1: to form an opinion from little or no evidence;


      * e.g., " ... we surmised that she had purchased the apple pie since there was a bakery box on the kitchen counter "



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    [Verb]  | "surmise" 


    1: to form an opinion from little or no evidence;


      * e.g., " ... we surmised that she had purchased the apple pie since there was a bakery box on the kitchen counter "



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     [ "surmising" ]

    1: To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.

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