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Word definitions for suggest in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suggest \Sug*gest"\, v. i. To make suggestions; to tempt. [Obs.] And ever weaker grows through acted crime, Or seeming-genial, venial fault, Recurring and suggesting still. --Tennyson.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something [syn: propose , advise ] imply as a possibility; "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification" [syn: intimate ] drop a hint; intimate by a hint [syn: hint ] suggest the necessity of an intervention; ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "place before another's mind; put forward a proposition," from Latin suggestus , past participle of suggerere "bring up, bring under, lay beneath; furnish, afford, supply; prompt" (see suggestion ). Meaning "to act so as to call up the idea of (something ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a poll shows/indicates/suggests sth ▪ Polls show that older voters are most concerned about economic issues. a study suggests/indicates sth ▪ A British study suggests that older drivers are safer drivers. a survey suggests ...

Usage examples of suggest.

Finally, he points out the practical bearing of the subject--for example, the probability of calculus causing sudden suppression of urine in such cases--and also the danger of surgical interference, and suggests the possibility of diagnosing the condition by ascertaining the absence of the opening of one ureter in the bladder by means of the cystoscope, and also the likelihood of its occurring where any abnormality of the genital organs is found, especially if this be unilateral.

I suggest that I detail some of the men that came aboard from that privateer, sir?

The Internet and the news services were abuzz with speculation, and a few editorials were suggesting that maybe the Probability Assessment Unit had completed its job and needed to be scaled back.

I suggested that people ignore the Panadol ads because they could buy store-brand acetaminophen for half as much.

It is also suggested that the fingerprint examiner wear rubber gloves when using acetone, benzine, xylene, formaldehyde, potassium hydroxide, or sodium hydroxide.

Keith still privately thought of such robots as PHARTs--PHANTOM ambulatory remote toilers--but the Waldahudin had started throwing things when it was suggested that Starplex terminology contained acronyms nested within acronyms.

You have to recollect, as the Conservative acutely suggests, that her timidities, at present urging her to support Establishments, pertain to her state of dependence.

However, he argued, it was addictive only when injected, and he had never suggested that anyone do this.

His fertile mind instantly suggested to him a point of view which gave him a right to despise the adjutant and the minister.

You could put an Adjutor into a cold sweat simply by suggesting something with cash value or money-making potential might be damaged.

But a simpler interpretation of the data suggests it to have been a purely physical effect caused by DDT particles adsorbing to the outside surfaces of the algae and cutting down the light supply.

The same uniform original spirit of superstition might suggest, in the most distant ages and countries, the same methods of deceiving the credulity, and of affecting the senses of mankind: but it must ingenuously be confessed, that the ministers of the Catholic church imitated the profane model, which they were impatient to destroy.

And then she would talk of subjects suggested by the pious Agaric, interrupting the conversation with sighs and kisses.

It is, therefore, preposterous to suggest that the two cannot live together amicably because the Hindus believe in Ahimsa and the Mahomedans do not.

Illustrations in alchemical books suggested sexual mysticism more often than not.