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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To offer for consideration or action; propose: suggest things for children to do; suggested that we take a walk.
  2. v. To bring or call to mind by logic or association; evoke: a cloud that suggests a mushroom; a ringlike symbol suggesting unity.
  3. v. To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply: a silence that suggested disapproval.
  4. v. To serve as or provide a motive for; prompt or demand: Such a crime suggests apt punishment.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To place before another's mind problematically; hint; intimate; insinuate; introduce to another's mind by the prompting of an indirect or mediate association.
  2. 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.
  3. To seduce; tempt; tempt away (from).
  4. Synonyms Intimate, Insinuate, etc. See hint.
  5. To indicate, prompt, advise, remind of.
  6. To make suggestions; be tempting; present thoughts or motives with indirectness or with diffidence to the mind.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To imply but stop short of saying explicitly.
  2. v. To make one suppose; cause one to suppose (something).
  3. v. transitive To ask for without demanding.
  4. v. transitive To recommend.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
  2. v. To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate.
  3. v. obsolete To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
  4. v. obsolete To inform secretly.
  5. v. obsolete To make suggestions; to tempt.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. call to mind
  2. v. suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine
  3. v. drop a hint; intimate by a hint
  4. v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something
  5. v. imply as a possibility

Etymologies

  1. From Latin suggerere ("to carry or bring under, furnish, supply, excite, advise, suggest"), from sub ("under") + gerere ("to bear, carry"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin suggerere, suggest- : sub-, up; see sub- + gerere, to carry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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