infer
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infer is part of the Academic Word List. It is important for students in college and university.
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- (transitive) If you infer something, you begin to believe it based on indirect information.
- We can infer from the old bones that this animal probably walked on two feet.
- From the evidence, we can infer the existence of a third child.