Definitions for surmises

surmises sur·mise

Spelling: [verb ser-mahyz; noun ser-mahyz, Surmises is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in surmises (eimrsssu).

Definitions for surmises

noun

  1. a matter of conjecture.
  2. an idea or thought of something as being possible or likely.
  3. a conjecture or opinion.

verb (used with object)

  1. to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.

verb (used without object)

  1. to conjecture or guess.

Origin of surmises

1350-1400; Middle English surmisen Anglo-French surmis(e), Middle French (past participle of surmettre to accuse Latin supermittere to throw upon), equivalent to sur- sur-

Examples for surmises

Keenan surmises that law enforcement, including the FBI, may be applying the same tactics in this case.

There have been surmises in the papers, but surmises are nothing.

"It is any one of four different possibilities that we are working on," Redstone surmises in the voicemail.

Brown thought and guessed and surmised, but guesses and surmises were fruitless.

She was mistaken in her surmises, however, for Lisa was not a devotee.

And she promptly reassured Madame Desagneaux with regard to her surmises.

Democratic money people are now, one surmises, mostly in the place where they want to see this happen.

Wellhausen surmises that the seraphs of the Jews are to be traced to some such origin.

What am I to say—what am I to do, mother, if—if—your surmises be actually true?

To this day he can not put a name to it; he surmises that it was Wapping.

Word Value for surmises
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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