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infer

 
 
/ɪnˈfɜːr/ verb [T] (present participle inferring, past tense and past participle inferred) formal

Translation

to guess that something is true because of the information that you have
anlam/sonuç/mana çıkarmak
[+ (that)] I inferred from the number of cups that he was expecting visitors.1109
(Definition of infer verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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