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deviner

Pronunciation: /də.vi.ne/

“deviner” is a French word. Its 2 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to guess; to work out, figure out
  2. to sense, perceive

In French

  1. Prédire ce qui doit arriver, découvrir, par des sortilèges, ce qui est caché.
  2. Parvenir à connaître, à découvrir par voie de conjecture.
  3. Trouver le mot, la solution, en parlant d'une énigme, d'un logogriphe, d'une charade
  4. Comprendre la personnalité, les pensées, les intentions ou les desseins de quelqu'un
  5. Distinguer, voir, confusément par la vue.

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin dēvināre, from Latin dīvīnāre.

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