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Definition of surmise in English: surmiseverb səˈmʌɪzsərˈmaɪz no object, usually with clause Suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it. 猜想;臆测 he surmised that something must be wrong 他猜想肯定有什么地方出了差错。 with direct speech ‘I don't think they're locals,’ she surmised “我想他们不是本地人,"她推测说。 Example sentencesExamples - They surmised that it must be a tractor with two different tires on it.
- Given this evidence, local police surmised that perhaps Weed was drunk and accidentally fell off the balcony.
- For the most part, the triage nurse surmised, people would be too drunk to notice they were injured, until they woke the next day doubly injured.
- The wind, we surmised, had opened and closed the screen door, which never worked properly.
- Thank you for this article, which states the facts that I surmised but never had the opportunity to track down and confirm.
- Perhaps, some surmised, the police operation was not really meant to keep order at all.
- Steven and some friends of his are all quite adamant that it was a reddish colour, not pink as the reporter surmised.
- He surmised that he could not be the sole source for the BBC's information.
- Workers, critics surmised, must surely feel slighted, insulted, and mocked by such acts of disdain.
- I think that I want to partly echo what Chris is surmising.
- However, she surmised that he would not want her to come to him willingly.
- The doctor stopped walking, and McNulty surmised that they must be outside Marx's room.
- As you may have surmised from the infrequent updating, the NICU is keeping me busy.
- I surmised that a crossing must exist, since the path could not start and finish in isolation.
- We surmised, since I hadn't had a cold sore in 10 years, that it may have gone away.
- I'm surmising that the riders were actually instructors performing for the benefit of the contestants.
- Hefting the weight of the tiny relic a moment longer, I smile and hand it back, surmising that it's all about trust.
- I felt terribly guilty but surmised she would never find out.
- However, I've always surmised that they saw something like what Jaime and I saw.
- In the end, he surmised that being third in line wasn't as important as being here.
Synonyms guess, conjecture, suspect, deduce, infer, come to the conclusion, conclude, theorize, speculate, glean, divine assume, presume, suppose, understand, gather, feel, have a sneaking suspicion, hazard a guess, sense, be of the opinion, think, believe, imagine, judge, fancy, reckon formal opine
noun səˈmʌɪzsərˈmaɪz A supposition that something may be true, even though there is no evidence to confirm it. 猜想;臆测 Charles was glad to have his surmise confirmed 查尔斯很高兴他的推测得到了证实。 mass noun all these observations remain surmise 所有这些评论都仍然只是猜想。 Example sentencesExamples - As an educationist, her surmise is that literacy had failed to free women from their predicament of subordination.
- The international coalition the White House is assembling will fracture if it is asked to act based on hunches and surmises.
- As he pulled the material away he could see his surmise was correct.
- This surmise is strengthened by the way his name is written out formally on the picture, including the surname.
- As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
- Perhaps it is the educated surmise that in large cities the rat population equals or exceeds the human.
- Her book is rich in intelligent surmise but thin on supporting evidence.
- Some of this was predicted, but you could never see through the haze, it was all surmise.
- It's not that his surmises are automatically wrong (they're backed up by art-historical knowledge and personal empathy), but that they sound affected and impossibly privileged.
- It is unjust to start bombing on the basis of those surmises.
- The surmise of the researchers turned out to be correct.
- My surmise is that anyone who has a patent to prosecute will hold off until the European software patent decision is made.
- Ben Franklin gave his own surmise as to the aptness of the rattler as a symbol.
- I was surprised with just how accurate some of their surmises were, though.
- He blends surmise, fact and hypothesis with impressive ease, resisting the temptation to sink into melodrama.
- We are just looking ahead, and trying to make an intelligent surmise about who will be the next leader of the country.
Synonyms opinion, view, viewpoint, point of view, attitude, stance, stand, standpoint, position, perspective, contention, conviction, judgement, thinking, way of thinking, thought, idea, theory, hypothesis, thesis, interpretation, assumption, presumption, supposition, surmise, postulation, conclusion, deduction, inference, notion, impression, sense, feeling, fancy, hunch
OriginLate Middle English (in the senses 'formal allegation' and 'allege formally'): from Anglo-Norman French and Old French surmise, feminine past participle of surmettre 'accuse', from late Latin supermittere 'put in afterwards', from super- 'over' + mittere 'send'. Rhymesadvise, apprise, apprize, arise, assize, capsize, chastise, comprise, demise, despise, devise, downsize, excise, flies, guise, incise, low-rise, misprize, outsize, previse, prise, prize, remise, revise, rise, size, surprise, uprise, wise Definition of surmise in US English: surmiseverbsərˈmaɪz no object, usually with clause Suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it. 猜想;臆测 he surmised that something must be wrong 他猜想肯定有什么地方出了差错。 with direct speech “I don't think they're locals,” she surmised “我想他们不是本地人,"她推测说。 Example sentencesExamples - However, I've always surmised that they saw something like what Jaime and I saw.
- As you may have surmised from the infrequent updating, the NICU is keeping me busy.
- Workers, critics surmised, must surely feel slighted, insulted, and mocked by such acts of disdain.
- They surmised that it must be a tractor with two different tires on it.
- Steven and some friends of his are all quite adamant that it was a reddish colour, not pink as the reporter surmised.
- Given this evidence, local police surmised that perhaps Weed was drunk and accidentally fell off the balcony.
- He surmised that he could not be the sole source for the BBC's information.
- Thank you for this article, which states the facts that I surmised but never had the opportunity to track down and confirm.
- However, she surmised that he would not want her to come to him willingly.
- I'm surmising that the riders were actually instructors performing for the benefit of the contestants.
- I surmised that a crossing must exist, since the path could not start and finish in isolation.
- I felt terribly guilty but surmised she would never find out.
- I think that I want to partly echo what Chris is surmising.
- Hefting the weight of the tiny relic a moment longer, I smile and hand it back, surmising that it's all about trust.
- Perhaps, some surmised, the police operation was not really meant to keep order at all.
- For the most part, the triage nurse surmised, people would be too drunk to notice they were injured, until they woke the next day doubly injured.
- We surmised, since I hadn't had a cold sore in 10 years, that it may have gone away.
- The doctor stopped walking, and McNulty surmised that they must be outside Marx's room.
- In the end, he surmised that being third in line wasn't as important as being here.
- The wind, we surmised, had opened and closed the screen door, which never worked properly.
Synonyms guess, conjecture, suspect, deduce, infer, come to the conclusion, conclude, theorize, speculate, glean, divine
nounsərˈmaɪz A supposition that something may be true, even though there is no evidence to confirm it. 猜想;臆测 Charles was glad to have his surmise confirmed 查尔斯很高兴他的推测得到了证实。 all these observations remain surmise 所有这些评论都仍然只是猜想。 Example sentencesExamples - Some of this was predicted, but you could never see through the haze, it was all surmise.
- The international coalition the White House is assembling will fracture if it is asked to act based on hunches and surmises.
- As a postscript to the story, my great grandfather died a few weeks after this conversation, proving, as his wife pointed out to her daughter, that she had been correct in her surmise.
- Her book is rich in intelligent surmise but thin on supporting evidence.
- My surmise is that anyone who has a patent to prosecute will hold off until the European software patent decision is made.
- Perhaps it is the educated surmise that in large cities the rat population equals or exceeds the human.
- As he pulled the material away he could see his surmise was correct.
- It's not that his surmises are automatically wrong (they're backed up by art-historical knowledge and personal empathy), but that they sound affected and impossibly privileged.
- I was surprised with just how accurate some of their surmises were, though.
- As an educationist, her surmise is that literacy had failed to free women from their predicament of subordination.
- The surmise of the researchers turned out to be correct.
- This surmise is strengthened by the way his name is written out formally on the picture, including the surname.
- He blends surmise, fact and hypothesis with impressive ease, resisting the temptation to sink into melodrama.
- Ben Franklin gave his own surmise as to the aptness of the rattler as a symbol.
- We are just looking ahead, and trying to make an intelligent surmise about who will be the next leader of the country.
- It is unjust to start bombing on the basis of those surmises.
Synonyms opinion, view, viewpoint, point of view, attitude, stance, stand, standpoint, position, perspective, contention, conviction, judgement, thinking, way of thinking, thought, idea, theory, hypothesis, thesis, interpretation, assumption, presumption, supposition, surmise, postulation, conclusion, deduction, inference, notion, impression, sense, feeling, fancy, hunch
OriginLate Middle English (in the senses ‘formal allegation’ and ‘allege formally’): from Anglo-Norman French and Old French surmise, feminine past participle of surmettre ‘accuse’, from late Latin supermittere ‘put in afterward’, from super- ‘over’ + mittere ‘send’. |