Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense surmises, present participle surmising, past tense, past participle surmised
1VERB 推测;猜测;臆测 If you surmise that something is true, you guess it from the available evidence, although you do not know for certain. 推测;猜测;臆测 [formal]
There's so little to go on, we can only surmise what happened. [VERB wh]
几乎毫无凭据,我们只能猜测发生了什么。
He surmised that he had discovered one of the illegal streets. [VERB that]
2N-VAR 猜想;推测;臆测 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. 猜想;推测;臆测 [formal]
It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting.