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Verb: suggest  su'jest
  1. Make a proposal, declare a plan for something
    "The consultant suggested a complete overhaul of the system";
    - propose, advise
     
  2. Imply as a possibility
    "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification";
    - intimate
     
  3. Make an indirect suggestion; intimate by a hint
    "Her expression suggested she knew more";
    - hint
     
  4. Call to mind
    "this remark suggested sadness";
    - evoke, conjure up, conjure

Derived forms: suggested, suggesting, suggests

Type of: convey, declare, evince [formal], express, imply, pronounce, show

Encyclopedia: Suggest