Definition of "surmise" [sur•mise]

• To infer (something) without sufficiently conclusive evidence. (verb-transitive)
• To make a guess or conjecture. (verb-intransitive)
• An idea or opinion based on insufficiently conclusive evidence; a conjecture. (noun)

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• "As you can surmise from the whole movie situation, the Colombian bus system seems to be run by evangelicals and lewd fellows of the baser sort."
• "But all I can surmise is that compared to those mushy frozen vegetables that I mentioned in gross foods, these were heaven."
• "What really happened we do not know, but the agreed surmise is that it was some stroke of the heart."