All go out on a limb synonyms

verb go out on a limb

• prophesy — to foretell or predict.
• imagine — to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
• visualize — to recall or form mental images or pictures.
• foresee — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
• deduce — If you deduce something or deduce that something is true, you reach that conclusion because of other things that you know to be true.
• foretell — to tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy.
• discern — to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
• infer — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
• surmise — to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess.
• divine — of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
• calculate — If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine.
• suggest — to mention or introduce (an idea, proposition, plan, etc.) for consideration or possible action: The architect suggested that the building be restored.
• pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
• fathom — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
• think — to seem or appear (usually used impersonally with a dative as the subject).
• presume — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
• solve — to find the answer or explanation for; clear up; explain: to solve the mystery of the missing books.
• believe — If you believe that something is true, you think that it is true, but you are not sure.
• operate — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
• dare — If you do not dare to do something, you do not have enough courage to do it, or you do not want to do it because you fear the consequences. If you dare to do something, you do something which requires a lot of courage.
• speculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
• stake — something that is wagered in a game, race, or contest.
• attempt — If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success.
• jeopardize — to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
• hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
• try — to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
• plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
• venture — an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one: a mountain-climbing venture.
• wager — something risked or staked on an uncertain event; bet: to place a wager on a soccer match.
• gamble — to play at any game of chance for money or other stakes.
• wildcat — any of several North American felines of the genus Lynx. Compare lynx.
• guess — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
• apprehend — If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
• suppose — to assume (something), as for the sake of argument or as part of a proposition or theory: Suppose the distance to be one mile.
• anticipate — If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
• conjecture — A conjecture is a conclusion that is based on information that is not certain or complete.
• perceive — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
• predict — to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
• see — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
• suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
• prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
• understand — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
• intuit — Understand or work out by instinct.
• forebode — to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand; portend: clouds that forebode a storm.
• foreknow — to know beforehand.
• previse — to foresee.
• predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• deem — If something is deemed to have a particular quality or to do a particular thing, it is considered to have that quality or do that thing.
• select — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.