opine

[ UK /ə‍ʊpˈa‍ɪn/ ]
[ US /oʊˈpaɪn/ ]
VERB
  1. express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation
    John spoke up at the meeting
  2. expect, believe, or suppose
    I thought to find her in a bad state
    he didn't think to find her in the kitchen
    I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel
    I guess she is angry at me for standing her up
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How To Use opine In A Sentence

  • The "heavy daturine," of which only a small quantity is obtainable, is far from being a body of definite composition, that is to say, it is a mixture of atropine and hyoscyamine. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
  • A fashion fact: the chopine was a 15th-century platform shoe that, on occasion, rose to a towering 30 inches, requiring madam to walk with a cane or simply a servant - a cane with legs? The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • In fifteenth-century Italy, shoemakers created an eroticized platform shoe for women called the chopine. Leora Tanenbaum: Our Stripper Shoes, Ourselves
  • When it comes to free trade, as Adam Smith once opined, ‘Not only the prejudices of the public, but what is much more unconquerable, the private interests of many individuals, irresistibly oppose it.’
  • Turning 50 is a cause for sombre reflection, not celebration," opined Norris and, as a flurry of firemen attempted to free her empurpled cranium, shame descended once more. World Of Lather
  • Intoxication with atropine or hyoscyamine is characterized by psychic excitation often combined with panic and hallucination. Natural Highs Frequently Asked Questions by Vince Cavasin
  • Causative medications are droperidol, diphenhydramine, meperidine, promethazine, atropine, and scopolamine.
  • The injected drug, which was known as double bichloride of gold, was actually a mixture of low doses of chemicals such as atropine, which could give patients nausea if they drank alcohol. If Dr. Keeley Could See You Now,
  • He found that the psychotomimetic ingredient in all of them was some kind of anticholinergic alkaloid—very similar to atropine and scopolamine. Over the Edge
  • We had had no falling out; it was simply the loopiness of life's paths that brings two people together, then leads them on their separate ways.
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