Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To offer for consideration or action; propose: suggest things for children to do; suggested that we take a walk.
- v. To bring or call to mind by logic or association; evoke: a cloud that suggests a mushroom; a ringlike symbol suggesting unity.
- v. To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply: a silence that suggested disapproval.
- v. To serve as or provide a motive for; prompt or demand: Such a crime suggests apt punishment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To place before another's mind problematically; hint; intimate; insinuate; introduce to another's mind by the prompting of an indirect or mediate association.
- To act, as an idea, so as to call up (another idea) by virtue either of an association or of a natural connection between the ideas.
- To seduce; tempt; tempt away (from).
- Synonyms Intimate, Insinuate, etc. See hint.
- To indicate, prompt, advise, remind of.
- To make suggestions; be tempting; present thoughts or motives with indirectness or with diffidence to the mind.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To imply but stop short of saying explicitly.
- v. To make one suppose; cause one to suppose (something).
- v. transitive To ask for without demanding.
- v. transitive To recommend.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
- v. To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate.
- v. obsolete To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
- v. obsolete To inform secretly.
- v. obsolete To make suggestions; to tempt.
WordNet 3.0
- v. call to mind
- v. suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine
- v. drop a hint; intimate by a hint
- v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something
- v. imply as a possibility
Etymologies
- From Latin suggerere ("to carry or bring under, furnish, supply, excite, advise, suggest"), from sub ("under") + gerere ("to bear, carry"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin suggerere, suggest- : sub-, up; see sub- + gerere, to carry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“However, as the title suggest, the blogs also suggest ways of countering "Eurabia" and restoring sanity.”
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“As the title suggest is a hive of authors that posting and sharing their fiction with anyone with access to the World Wide Web.”
“It's about as good as the title suggest ie; not very, but there are some corker tracks.”
“All you can do in order to learn Chinese quick, as the title suggest, is to get familiar with the language so as to be able to get your way around.”
“I think not doing so will hurt the poor (which you suggest is code for “racial minority”) in the future, when Social Security as we know it is insolvent.”
“As the title suggest, the show will be hinged on the Sarah Connor character, but not her toughness, but rather her inner struggle of protecting and trianning a future savior, raising a son as normal as possible and trying to stop all of this from happening to begin with.”
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“The Hummer and the Mini by Robyn WatersAs the two iconic machines in the title suggest, the products that succeed in our polarized age can confound the expectations of even the savviest marketers.”
“Directions on the label suggest using 3,500-4,000 grams for about a tenth of an acre to kill red spiders.”
“Directions on the label suggest using 3,500 to 4,500 grams for about a tenth of an acre to kill red spiders.”
“As the title suggest, this is a 3-bag collector, I like these over the 2-baggers because they can hold much more grass clippings, and or leaves, before you have to empty the bags.”
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a manner of speaking
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