忖度 — meaning in English
cǔn duó
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English meaning
- agree verb To share the same opinion as someone else.
- assume verb To accept something as true without proof.
- befriend verb To become someone's friend, or to act in a friendly, supportive way toward them.
- contract noun A written or spoken agreement, especially one intended to be enforceable by law.
- get verb To come to have or receive something; to obtain.
- suppose verb To assume or believe something without full proof.
- surmise verb To guess or conclude something without solid proof.
Senses
忖度 is used for these senses in English:
- agree (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
- assume To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof
- befriend (transitive, dated) To act as a friend to, to assist.
- contract (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
- get (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- suppose (transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
- surmise (intransitive) To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
- take on (idiomatic) To begin to have or exhibit.
agree — full definition
- verb To share the same opinion as someone else.
- verb To say yes to a plan, request, or arrangement.
- verb In grammar, to match another word in form, such as a verb matching its subject in number.
assume — full definition
- verb To accept something as true without proof.
- verb To take on a role, responsibility, or form.