transcription, транскрипция: [ sə(r)maɪz ]
( 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