SUGGEST

v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke.

2.
v.

To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.

3.
v.

To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt. [Obs.] Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested. Shak.

4.
v.

To inform secretly. [Obs.]

5.
v.

To make suggestions; to tempt. [Obs.] And ever weaker grows through acted crime, Or seeming-genial, venial fault, Recurring and suggesting still. Tennyson.


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