0 past simple and past participle of surmise --
1 to guess something, without having much or any proof: --
[ + (that) ] The police surmise (that) the robbers have fled the country.
In past centuries, diaries were ostensibly private, even though a reader or fictional addressee was always surmised or at least implied.
The maternal tissue that hosts trophoblast, the decidua, is rich in immune cells whose functions can only be surmised.
It is surmised that they are also essential for a sucessful pregnancy, but as yet the evidence is not good.
It must not be surmised from the close relationship between corruption and poverty that it is exclusively a developing country problem.
As some readers may have surmised, many of these 'parsings' of the music relate to (pre-)compositional (serial) structures.
Many investigators have surmised that reduced-chemical and organic crop production require the input of a higher level of human capital than does conventional production.
Two major changes in the australopithecine body made this possible, one clearly documented and the other surmised on reasonable grounds.
Why the significance of this action was not picked up can only be surmised.
