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Suggesting

Suggest \Sug*gest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suggested; p. pr. & vb. n. Suggesting.] [L. suggestus, p. p. of suggerere to put under, furnish, suggest; sub under + gerere to carry, to bring. See Jest.]

  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

    Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection.
    --Locke.

  2. To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.

  3. To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt. [Obs.]

    Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested.
    --Shak.

  4. To inform secretly. [Obs.]

    Syn: To hint; allude to; refer to; insinuate.

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suggesting

n. suggestion vb. (present participle of suggest English)

Usage examples of "suggesting".

Cathy has described notes from the queen suggesting a continuous orgy, lasting years, with a change in the seminal constituency such that an individual woman might find it easier to rouse and take a break occasionally.

He cannot force her to think on any particular subject, other than by suggesting it and observing her reaction.

He stood Gertrude behind Ethel and issued similar instructions, suggesting that she take support from Ethel.

When I refused to permit it, he threatened me with his retainers, suggesting that some were armed.

And notice that when I suggest abstract words I am only suggesting an extension of our present practice.

No one in England, except Orwell and possibly the Stalinists, would think of suggesting that Julian Symons has any Fascist tendencies.

Conjurer might at this moment be suggesting to Cheryl Marston that she go for a drive with him or they stop at her apartment.

My grandfather wrote a petition to our daimyo suggesting that one such man should be allowed to come to Shimonoseki, at their cost, to teach Dutch and English for an experimental one year, trade would come afterwards.

Ogama a letter suggesting a meeting in three days to discuss the ramifications of the visit--he must be as astonished as any daimyo.

What was even stranger was the clarity of her mind, all the weight seemed to be gone, not the sadness but how clearly it considered problem after problem without consternation, never mixing them, suggesting answers, and never the usual heart-hurting fear, not even a little.

American quiescence, China made anxious inquiries, even suggesting that she might be forced into alliance with Japan.

Roosevelt had written to him at that time saying he wished he could go with him to see Chennault and suggesting as an alternative that Chennault come to Washington.

Before Born, an honorific title suggesting that the person addressed is older, hence presumably more learned and entitled to respect on account of seniority.

The manuscript writing consisted of the common traditional symbols used today in astronomy and anciently in alchemy, astrology, and other dubious arts--the devices of the sun, moon, planets, aspects, and zodiacal signs--here massed in solid pages of text, with divisions and paragraphings suggesting that each symbol answered to some alphabetical letter.

Then a sudden return of rightful consciousness, intermittently plagued ever after with vague unplaceable dreams suggesting fragments of some hideous memory elaborately blotted out.