All 3 Uses of
estimate
in
Arrowsmith
- He estimated that according to Pickerbaugh's figures on bad teeth, careless motoring, tuberculosis, and seven other afflictions alone, every person in the city had a one hundred and eighty per cent chance of dying before the age of sixteen and he could not startle with much alarm when Pickerbaugh shouted, "Do you realize that the number of people who died from yaws in Pickens County, Mississippi, last year alone, was twenty-nine and that they might all have been saved, yes, sir, SAVED,…†
Chpt 21
- Martin estimated that Pickerbaugh must have used half his time in being inspirational and eloquent.†
Chpt 24 *
- He looked cautiously along the row of seats (raging at himself the while for doing it), he estimated his chance of reaching an exit, and became easy only when he had escaped into the street.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(estimate) rough calculation or judgment