Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense surmises, present participle surmising, past tense, past participle surmised
1VERB 推測;猜測;臆測 If you surmise that something is true, you guess it from the available evidence, although you do not know for certain. 推測;猜測;臆測 [formal]
There's so little to go on, we can only surmise what happened. [VERB wh]
幾乎毫無憑據,我們只能猜測發生了什麽。
He surmised that he had discovered one of the illegal streets. [VERB that]
2N-VAR 猜想;推測;臆測 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;推測;臆測 [formal]
It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting.