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Surmise
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(surmises, surmising, surmised) 1. If you surmise that something is true, you guess it from the available evidence, although you do not know for certain. (FORMAL) There’s so little to go on, we can only surmise what happened... He surmised that he had discovered one of the illegal streets. VERB: V wh, V that, also V, V n 2. If you say that a particular conclusion is surmise, you mean that it is a guess based on the available evidence and you do not know for certain that it is true. (FORMAL) It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant’s poem in mind when doing this painting... His surmise proved correct. = conjecture N-VAR
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I. noun Etymology: 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 Date: 1569 a thought or idea based on scanty evidence ; conjecture II. transitive verb (~d; surmising) Etymology: Middle English, to allege, from ~, noun Date: 1700 to form a notion of from scanty evidence ; imagine, infer ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. a conjecture or suspicion about the existence or truth of something. --v. 1 tr. (often foll. by that + clause) infer doubtfully; make a surmise about. 2 tr. suspect the existence of. 3 intr. make a guess. Etymology: ME f. AF & OF fem. past part. of surmettre accuse f. LL supermittere supermiss- (as SUPER-, mittere send) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. предположение, подозрение, догадка to be right in one's surmises —- не ошибаться в своих предположениях it is a mere surmise —- это лишь (просто) догадка 2. предполагать, подозревать, высказывать догадку from this I surmise —- из этого я делаю вывод I surmised as much —- я так и предполагал (думал) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun предположение, подозрение, догадка 2. v. предполагать, подозревать, высказывать догадку Syn: see suppose ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v formal to guess that something is true using the information you know already - surmise n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1400, "to charge, allege," from O.Fr. surmis, pp. of surmettre "to accuse," from sur- "upon" + mettre "put," from L. mittere "send." The noun meaning "inference, guess" is first found in Eng. 1590. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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