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surmises

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noun

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The correct spelling is surmises. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess. For example: "surmises of jealousy or of envy"

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surmises of jealousy or of envy

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
  2. 2.Reflection; thought; posit.

verb

  1. 1.To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.

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