Usually means: Doubt or reconsider a decision.
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  1. second-guess: Merriam-Webster
  2. second-guess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. second-guess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. second-guess, second-guess: Collins English Dictionary
  5. second-guess: Vocabulary.com
  6. second-guess: Wordnik
  7. second-guess: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. second-guess: Wiktionary
  9. second-guess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. second-guess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. second-guess: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. second-guess: Dictionary.com
  13. second-guess: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. second-guess: Rhymezone
  15. second-guess: FreeDictionary.org
  16. second-guess: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. second-guess: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. second-guess: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To vet or evaluate; to criticize or correct, often by hindsight, by presuming to have a better idea, method, etc.
▸ verb:  To anticipate or predict someone's actions or thoughts by guesswork.

Similar:
rejudge, think twice, back up, review, revise, criticize, look back, readvise, job backwards, judge, more...

Opposite:
trust, believe, have faith in, rely on

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Similar:
rejudge, think twice, back up, review, revise, criticize, look back, readvise, job backwards, judge, more...

Opposite:
trust, believe, have faith in, rely on



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