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INTUIT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they intuit ... he / she / it intuits
Past simple: intuited
-ing form: intuiting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Know or grasp by intuition or feeling
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "intuit" is one way to...):
apprehend; compass; comprehend; dig; get the picture; grasp; grok; savvy (get the meaning of something)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Derivation:
intuition (instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes))
intuition (an impression that something might be the case)
intuitive (obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation)