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Suggested

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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vb. (en-past of: suggest)

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suggested

adj. mentioned as worthy of acceptance; "the recommended medicine"; "the suggested course of study" [syn: recommended]

Usage examples of "suggested".

Cathy suggested it during a conversation with George, Trina took up on it and tested Michael, with the results she has told you, and I commanded her to implement the solution.

His courtship provided George and me so many funny stories that George suggested I propose a contract to keep him in attendance.

A chance remark from one of the women, who somehow had also visited the Mediterranean coast, suggested the beach world to Ty.

The face was handsome in the manner of commanding women, but a maze of wrinkles at the corners of mouth and eyes, and two brown spots on the chin, suggested an age in excess of 50 years.

The last journal entry suggested that you would attempt to conquer Joy Hall.

The queen suggested that Alfred would enjoy teasing Emma about her lost virginity.

Quiverings on his chest and buttocks in time with his spurts suggested that the Errin partook fully of his transports.

But the similarity to rape that his fancy had suggested, the passive submission, began to trouble him.

A slender arm nearby, hand clutching an erect penis, suggested another choice.

George suggested when the other four had seated themselves in a semicircle before him.

Cathy suggested that she had probably infected most of the men and through them most of the women whom she had contacted in the past ten years.

Sophie paced her for a hundred yards then suggested that they turn back to the beach.

When I spoke of it, you suggested that your guardsmen might constitute a menace to the women.

Astoria suggested, in effect, that we might fetch a spy eye to Marn and use it to locate the ideal spot for a coastal city, where we could simply construct a large building -- another warehouse -- to contain the gate to Man Station.

So he wanted to build a fire and suggested that Lois should send her retriever back to the forest and collect wood.