noun
- A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.
- synonyms: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis
verb
- Infer from incomplete evidence.
- Imagine to be the case or true or probable.
- usage: "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it"
- synonyms: suspect
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