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feel in one's bones
verb. have a gut feeling
  • expect
  • feel deeply
  • have a feeling
  • have a funny feeling
  • have a hunch
  • have a sensation
  • just know
  • perceive
  • predict
  • sense

intuit
verb. perceive
  • appreciate
  • apprehend
  • comprehend
  • conclude
  • copy
  • deduce
  • distinguish
  • feature
  • feel
  • feel in one's bones
  • flash
  • gather
  • get
  • get the message
  • get the picture
  • get vibrations
  • grasp
  • know
  • learn
  • pin
  • read
  • realize
  • recognize
  • see
  • sense
  • track

preoccupy
verb. absorb
  • assimilate
  • comprehend
  • consume
  • digest
  • engross
  • follow
  • get
  • get into
  • grasp
  • immerse
  • incorporate
  • latch onto
  • learn
  • monopolize
  • sense
  • soak up
  • take in
  • understand

repute
verb. believe
  • conjecture
  • consider
  • credit
  • deem
  • expect
  • feel
  • gather
  • guess
  • hold
  • imagine
  • judge
  • maintain
  • postulate
  • presume
  • reckon
  • sense
  • speculate
  • suppose
  • suspect
  • take
  • think
  • understand
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Word Origin & History

sense c.1400, "faculty of perception," also "meaning or interpretation" (esp. of Holy Scripture), from O.Fr. sens, from L. sensus "perception, feeling, undertaking, meaning," from sentire "perceive, feel, know," prob. a fig. use of a lit. meaning "to find one's way," from PIE base *sent- "to go" (cf. O.H.G. sinnan "to go, travel, strive after, have in mind, perceive," Ger. Sinn "sense, mind," O.E. sið "way, journey," O.Ir. set, Welsh hynt "way"). Application to any one of the external or outward senses (touch, sight, hearing, etc.) first recorded 1526."Hornkostel cites a Negro tribe that has ...a separate word for seeing, but employs a common term for hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching." [A.G. Engstrom, "Philological Quarterly," XXV, 1946]The verb meaning "to perceive by the senses" is recorded from 1598. Senses "mental faculties, sanity" is attested from 1568.

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Example Sentences for sensed

In one blinding rush he sensed the strength and the faith of Allister.

On the other side of the screen of broad leaves we sensed the presence of life.

The Mercutian sensed their dilemma as they crouched on the stairs.

Had he not been intoxicated—with drink and with her—he might have sensed it.

I sensed that this was the last moment before he left—for good.

He had seen no guards watching the house; had sensed it deserted.

He sensed more than saw that Smithy had not turned his head.

Here, as Rawson had sensed, was new material to form the core of a world.

Sucatash sensed the fact that De Launay intended to be reticent.

But he pulled me off the bale by the leg, and that woke me up so I sensed what he was saying.

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