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present participle of conjecture
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1
to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement
- he conjectured that the theater could seat 1000 people more or less
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2
to form an opinion from little or no evidence
- you're only conjecturing that he was the culprit
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- assuming,
- daresaying,
- guessing,
- imagining,
- presuming,
- speculating,
- supposing,
- surmising,
- suspecting,
- suspicioning
- [chiefly dialect]
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“Conjecturing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conjecturing. Accessed 23 Jan. 2022.
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