Surmise vs. Deduce

Surmise vs. Deduce — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Surmise and Deduce

Surmisenoun

Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.

surmises of jealousy or of envy

Deduceverb

(transitive) To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises.

Surmisenoun

Reflection; thought; posit.

Deduceverb

(obsolete) To take away; to deduct; to subtract.

to deduce a part from the whole

Surmiseverb

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

Deduceverb

To lead forth.

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Surmisenoun

a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

Deduceverb

reason by deduction; establish by deduction

Surmiseverb

infer from incomplete evidence

Deduceverb

conclude by reasoning; in logic

Surmiseverb

imagine to be the case or true or probable;

I suspect he is a fugitiveI surmised that the butler did it