Surmise vs. Deduce
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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 envyDeduceverb
(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 wholeSurmiseverb
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
