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# surmise

verb (surmise, surmises, surmised, surmising); noun (a surmise)

«surmise» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To surmise is to guess something from clues, without being sure. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmise/#m1)
2. A surmise is a guess of this kind. (formal, old use) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmise/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories someone works out a likely answer from what they can see; the word is more formal than «guess»

### Examples

- I can only surmise why the door was locked. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmise/#x1)
- I surmise that the stranger is lost. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmise/#x2)
- Her surmise turned out to be right. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmise/#x3)
- It was no more than a surmise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmise/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «surmise» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surmise/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«surmise» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/surmise.html) on Mova free.