Crossword clues for surmised
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surmise \Sur*mise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surmised; p. pr. & vb. n. Surmising.] To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew
That what before she but surmised, was true.
--Dryden.
This change was not wrought by altering the form or
position of the earth, as was surmised by a very
learned man, but by dissolving it.
--Woodward.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: surmise)
Usage examples of "surmised".
Central had surmised he might have such a system in addition to the open accounts he maintained via Net, but nothing could be checked until they arrived planetside.
From the expression on the big Southerner's face, Robinton surmised that he was meeting with little success.
But they were never, as you surmised, permitted to carry great weights.
As master and First Adviser fell into step toward the long hall in which the Lord of the Anasati conducted business, Jiro surmised aloud, 'We know that Tasaio of the Minwanabi paid the Hamoi Tong to kill Mara.
He saw four columns, and surmised that each entry was comprised of four pieces of information: the date of the contract, the price agreed upon, the name of the target, and the name of the person buying the contract.
Aware that Pug could depart from any place in her house, she surmised that his request stemmed from a wish for privacy.
Seeing the grave expression on Keyoke's face, she surmised the worst: 'Jiro's siege engines.
Drizzt surmised that Akar Kessell planned to use this cave as a home base for his army.
Bruenor surmised, and he walked back out the door before the innkeeper noticed him and set the barmaids upon him.
Being left alone with her and the golem didn't bother him, she surmised, but he feared any budding friendship between his two road-mates.
At first, they surmised that the giant encampment must be down there in the ravine, hidden among the boulders, but then Wulfgar spotted a line of smoke drifting up from behind a wall of boulders on the cliff wall almost directly across the way, some fifty yards from their position.
This second goblin, larger by far and likely, Drizzt surmised from his understanding of goblin culture, a leader in the tribe, stepped out from the shadows.
Garion surmised that it probably had something to do with the inner workings of the female mind.
Garion surmised that the balcony was largely used by Temple functionaries going to and fro on various errands.
In his haste to escape, the assassin had, Garion surmised, inadvertently slammed the door on his own cape, and then had ripped off this fragment in his flight.