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Reckon

verb

(past & past part. reckoned; pres. part. reckoning)

Expect, believe, or suppose. Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, suppose, think. "I thought to find her in a bad state" , "He didn't think to find her in the kitchen" , "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"

Judge to be probable. Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, forecast.

Deem to be. Synonyms: consider, regard, see, view. "I consider her to be shallow" , "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

Make a mathematical calculation or computation. Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, work out.

Have faith or confidence in. Synonyms: bet, calculate, count, depend, look. "Look to your friends for support" , "You can bet on that!" , "Depend on your family in times of crisis"

Take account of. Synonym: count. "Count on the monsoon"

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— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

... you. In the first place, you would not believe me. In the second place, you would reckon an advantage what I reckon ...

— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner

... room (that is to say, two steps right forward, and then turn back again). The sense of my condition followed me like the shadow on the wall, and for the first time in my life I felt myself cast down, and threw a gloomy look on my dark future. I had no patron, therefore could not reckon upon promotion for a long time; consequently, also, not upon my own bread—on a friend—a wife, ...

— Stories by Foreign Authors • Various

... tone, "Worthy man!he cared not how soon Monkbarns had devolved on an heir-female, I've a notion;and while he was occupied in this Christian office of consolation against impending evil, I reckon that the chicken-pie and ...

— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... said Annersley, and his eyes twinkled. "'Specially a hitchin'-rail. Git your rope on a hitchin'-rail and I reckon that hitchin'-rail would ...

— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs

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