(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ that something is true, you think that it is true. (INFORMAL)
Toni ~ed that it must be about three o’clock...
= think
VERB: V that
2.
If something is ~ed to be a particular figure, it is calculated to be roughly that amount.
The star’s surface temperature is ~ed to be minus 75 degrees celcius...
There was a proportion of research, which I ~ed at not more than 30 percent, that was basic research.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed to-inf, be V-ed at n