deduce
di doohs
- v reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- v conclude by reasoning; in logic
- From the size of the footprints the investigators deduced that the thief had large feet.
- Only what we can measure and deduce from measurement is true.
- They can see the shrunken wrinkles that let a murderer kill without conscience, and the overgrown folds that let an Einstein deduce the secrets of the universe.