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SUGGEST

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a proposal, declare a plan for something

Example:

the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax

Synonyms:

advise; propose; suggest

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "suggest" is one way to...):

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "suggest"):

advocate; recommend; urge (push for something)

advance; throw out (bring forward for consideration or acceptance)

proposition (suggest sex to)

feed back (respond to a query or outcome)

posit; put forward; state; submit (put before)

make a motion; move (propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

They suggest him to write the letter

They suggest to move

Derivation:

suggester (someone who advances a suggestion or proposal)

suggestible (susceptible or responsive to suggestion)

suggestion (a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection)

suggestion (persuasion formulated as a suggestion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Drop a hint; intimate by a hint

Synonyms:

hint; suggest

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "suggest" is one way to...):

convey ((of information) make known; pass on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "suggest"):

adumbrate; insinuate; intimate (give to understand)

clue in (provide someone with a clue)

advert; allude; touch (make a more or less disguised reference to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They suggest that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

suggester (someone who advances a suggestion or proposal)

suggestible (susceptible or responsive to suggestion)

suggestion (a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Call to mind

Example:

this remark evoked sadness

Synonyms:

evoke; paint a picture; suggest

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "suggest" is one way to...):

evince; express; show (give expression to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "suggest"):

reek; smack; smell (have an element suggestive (of something))

imply; incriminate; inculpate (suggest that someone is guilty)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

suggestion (the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Imply as a possibility

Example:

The evidence suggests a need for more clarification

Synonyms:

intimate; suggest

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "suggest" is one way to...):

imply (suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "suggest"):

make out (imply or suggest)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

suggestible (susceptible or responsive to suggestion)

suggestion (persuasion formulated as a suggestion)

suggestive (tending to suggest or imply)

suggestive ((usually followed by 'of') pointing out or revealing clearly)

Credits

 Context examples: 

If radiation therapy is part of the treatment plan, your doctor may suggest waiting until after radiation therapy.

(Breast Reconstruction, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

But I too have been thinking over the past, and a question has suggested itself, whether there may not have been one person more my enemy even than that lady?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Identification of in vitro interactions with beta-catenin suggest that the APC protein may be involved with cell adhesion.

(Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

"Call the Winged Monkeys," suggested the Tin Woodman.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

That suggests the creature may have been alive when trapped.

(Dinosaur Tail Found in Myanmar, VOA News)

Some evidence suggests that acetylcysteine may exert an anti-apoptotic effect due to its antioxidant activity, possibly preventing cancer cell development or growth.

(Acetylcysteine, NCI Thesaurus)

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Now, of course that suggested at once that there must be a communication between the two rooms.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Probably he acted as I suggest.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt that I was speaking folly, and yet it was the only real cause which I could suggest.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)