(~s, surmising, ~d)
1.
If you ~ 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 ~ what happened...
He ~d 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 ~, 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 ~ that Bosch had Brant’s poem in mind when doing this painting...
His ~ proved correct.
= conjecture
N-VAR