suggest

suggest
[[t]səʤe̱st, AM səgʤ-[/t]]
♦
suggests, suggesting, suggested
1) VERB If you suggest something, you put forward a plan or idea for someone to think about.

[V n] He suggested a link between class size and test results of seven-year-olds...

[V that] I suggest you ask him some specific questions about his past...

[V to n that] I suggested to Mike that we go out for a meal with his colleagues...

[V wh] No one has suggested how this might occur...

[V with quote] `Could he be suffering from amnesia?' I suggested...

[V -ing] So instead I suggested taking her out to dinner for a change.

2) VERB If you suggest the name of a person or place, you recommend them to someone.

[V n] Could you suggest someone to advise me how to do this?...

[V wh to-inf] They can suggest where to buy one.

3) VERB If you suggest that something is the case, you say something which you believe is the case.

[V that] I'm not suggesting that is what is happening...

[V that] It is wrong to suggest that there are easy alternatives...

[V that] Their success is conditional, I suggest, on this restriction.

4) VERB If one thing suggests another, it implies it or makes you think that it might be the case.

[V that] Earlier reports suggested that a meeting would take place on Sunday...

[V n] Its hairy body suggests a mammal.

5) VERB If one thing suggests another, it brings it to your mind through an association of ideas.

[V n] This onomatopoeic word suggests to me the sound a mousetrap makes when it snaps shut.


English dictionary. 2008.

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  • suggest — 1. When followed by a that clause (or one with that omitted) and proposing a course of action rather than hinting at a fact, suggest commonly generates a subjunctive verb, and the same is true of the noun suggestion: • Uncle doesn t suggest that… …   Modern English usage

  • suggest — [səg jest′; ] also, & Brit usually [, sə jest′] vt. [< L suggestus, pp. of suggerere, to carry or lay under, furnish < sub ,SUB + gerere, to carry] 1. to mention as something to think over, act on, etc.; bring to the mind for consideration… …   English World dictionary

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • suggest — sug·gest vt 1: to mention or imply as a possibility 2: to enter on the record as a suggestion Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. suggest …   Law dictionary

  • suggest — [v1] convey advice, plan, desire advance, advise, advocate, broach, commend, conjecture, exhort, give a tip*, move, offer, plug*, pose, prefer, propone, propose, proposition, propound, put, put forward, put in two cents*, put on to something*,… …   New thesaurus

  • Suggest — Sug*gest , v. i. To make suggestions; to tempt. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] And ever weaker grows through acted crime, Or seeming genial, venial fault, Recurring and suggesting still. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • suggest — 1520s, from L. suggestus, pp. of suggerere (see SUGGESTION (Cf. suggestion)). Related: Suggested; suggesting …   Etymology dictionary

  • suggest */*/*/ — UK [səˈdʒest] / US [səɡˈdʒest] verb [transitive] Word forms suggest : present tense I/you/we/they suggest he/she/it suggests present participle suggesting past tense suggested past participle suggested Get it right: suggest: When suggest means to …   English dictionary

  • suggest — sug|gest W1S1 [səˈdʒest US səgˈdʒest] v [T] [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: , past participle of suggerere to put under, provide, suggest , from sub ( SUB ) + gerere to carry ] 1.) to tell someone your ideas about what they should do, where… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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