Surmise has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:
Noun
· Verb
Noun
1
a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
2
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
Verb
1
infer from incomplete evidence
2
imagine to be the case or true or probable
"I suspect he is a fugitive"
"I surmised that the butler did it"
3
To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
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