surmise
verb (used with object)
to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
was surmising
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past progressiveof surmise.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Then just as I was surmising that he must have gone out of the garden, behold, you came, as luck would have it, from the opposite direction.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
I was surmising how my day would be passed, when I was rejoiced to see Tugela approaching.
From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Emma Watts Phillips
