Word Finder - suggesting

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To imply but stop short of saying explicitly.

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Are you suggesting that I killed my wife?

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To make one suppose; cause one to suppose (something).

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The name "hamburger" suggests that hamburgers originated from Hamburg.

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To mention something as an idea, typically in order to recommend it

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I’d like to suggest that we go out to lunch.   I’d like to suggest going out to lunch.

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To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.

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Suggestion

I wasn't suggesting anything like that.

His comment earned a look from Martha suggesting the subject had been discussed in the confines of their bedroom.

Then what you were suggesting makes sense.

I regretted the words as soon as I'd spoken; suggesting a lie to cover a larger one.

Dr Lea is probably right in suggesting that it was a confused recollection of these decrees which prompted one of Cranmer's judges to assure him that "his children were bondmen to the see of Canterbury."

However, the younger Stoics endeavoured to meet the assaults of their persistent critic Carneades by suggesting various modes of testing a single presentation, to see whether it were consistent with others, especially such as occurred in groups, &c.; indeed, some went so far as to add to the definition " coming from a real object and exactly corresponding with it " the clause " provided it encounter no obstacle."

In 1847 he founded the journal La Patria, and addressed to the grand duke a memorial suggesting remedies for the difficulties of the state.

He also sketched a theory of chemical affinity on the facts he had discovered, and concluded by suggesting that the electric decomposition of neutral salts might in some cases admit of economical applications and lead to the isolation of the true elements of bodies.

The present drawing, which under the authority of Linnaeus shows an anthropomorphic series from which the normal type of man, the Homo sapiens, is conspicuously absent, brings zoological similarity into view without suggesting kinship to account for it.

A more laboured work, his Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712), in a letter to Harley, suggesting the regulation of the English language by an academy, is chiefly remarkable as a proof of the deference paid to French taste by the most original English writer of his day.

In Ceratozamia the broad petiole-base is characterized by the presence of two lateral spinous processes, suggesting stipular appendages, comparable, on a reduced scale, with the large stipules of the Marattiaceae among Ferns.

Wide areas are often exclusively occupied by conifers, which give the landscape a sombre aspect, suggesting a comparison with the forest vegetation of the Coal period.

On the 7th of December he wrote confidentially to the sovereigns whose representatives had signed the treaty of Paris, suggesting that the future of Rumania should be regulated by a European congress.

On the 28th of July Mr Chamberlain sent a conciliatory despatch to President Kruger, suggesting a meeting of delegates to consider and report on his last franchise proposals, which were complex to a degree.

The black stone is a small dark mass a span long, with an aspect suggesting volcanic or meteoric origin, fixed at such a height that it can be conveniently kissed by a person of middle size.

But his great influence on modern thought is undeniable, both as the historic founder of French socialism and as suggesting much of what was afterwards elaborated into Comtism.

The Democrats were successful at the polls, and President Polk in his inaugural address asserted the claim of the United States to all of Oregon in terms suggesting the possibility of war.

It was now, too, that he published his famous work Stadium, suggesting a whole series of useful and indeed indispensable reforms (1833), which was followed by Hunnia (1834), which advocated the extension and beautifying of Budapest so as to make it the worthy capital of a future great power.

A consideration of the characters of both shows that the Psilotales are the nearest living representatives of the Sphenophyllales, while resemblances suggesting actual relationship exist between this group and the Equisetales and Lycopodiales.

In 1696 and 1697 he presented memorials to the king suggesting that the firstfruits and tenths raised by the clergy should be devoted to the augmentation of the poorer livings, and though his suggestions were not immediately accepted, they were carried into effect under Queen Anne by the provision known as Queen Anne's Bounty.

At this date, though still nominally associated with the Evangelicals, Newman's views were gradually assuming a higher ecclesiastical tone, and while local secretary of the Church Missionary Society he circulated an anonymous letter suggesting a method by which Churchmen might practically oust Nonconformists from all control of the society.

Articles, suggesting that their negations were not directed against the authorized creed of Roman Catholics, but only against popular errors and exaggerations.

Davy Postle read a paper before the Royal Society of Victoria, suggesting the conveyance of meat on board ship in a frozen state by means of refrigerated air, and in 1869 he showed by experiment how it could be done; but his apparatus was not commercially developed.

Conceptacles contaning Spores, and strongly suggesting the Chytridineous Fungus Urophlyetis, have recently been found, in petrified material, on the leaves of an Alethopteris, which appears to have undergone decay before fossilization set in.

In some species of Annularia the extremely delicate ultimate twigs, bearing whorls of small lanceolate leaves, give a characteristic habit, suggesting that they may have belonged to herbaceous plants; other Annulariae, however, have been traced with certainty into connexion with the stems of large Calamites.

A striking feature is the presence of large, radiating intercellular cavities in the cortex, suggesting an aquatic habit.

These dreams may be fascinating and I admit I'm stumped about their cause but what you're suggesting is plain impossible.

Dean thought of suggesting that Cynthia wait until dessert (and the news) was digested before chitchatting about the particulars, but he held his tongue.

David Hoile and others have given valid reasons for suggesting that the Levelers were the political antecedents of present day Libertarians.

In this example, the hands are held over the stomach, suggesting that it might have been used for belly aches.

In 5/6 patients the wild-type allele was lost in the tumor samples, suggesting a causal role for the mutations in RCC.

Over the same interval Type A sequence boundaries become angular rather than parallel unconformities, suggesting increased tilting of the basin margin.

Suggesting CBMs has become so axiomatic of conventional wisdom in situations of perplexity that one hesitates to follow such a well-trodden path.

Note the elaborate painted backcloth, suggesting an opulent sitting room.

The stone was encrusted with small barnacles, suggesting that it had been under water before its re-use in the fort construction.

V. cholerae builds only one flagellum per cell, suggesting that there must be a close coupling between flagellum biogenesis and cell division.

The resulting mice showed an increased number of blood vessels in the skin, suggesting that AGF does indeed promote blood vessel formation.

However, even next to fresh cliff falls one rarely finds freshly broken material on the beach suggesting that it is quickly rounded.

Basal serum calcitonin levels fell only moderately, suggesting distant micrometastases.

The officer was probably trying to offer comfort by suggesting that Herbert had had time for his final words.

Only two unions disagreed, with one of them even suggesting a triennial congress.

A sly message is hereby conveyed, suggesting that rule-breaking can be advantageous to some.

There are no cores suggesting that they were either removed from the site or that the knapping debris was removed from elsewhere for burial.

I am not suggesting corruption just an overwhelming desire to have office set-ups which cost a fortune.

Because Hemp seeds are so digestible, scientists are suggesting their use in medicine to help block diseases and for treating malnutrition.

Will show dilatation of the renal pelvis suggesting reflux or obstruction.

Bandolier was asked whether a recent editorial [1] suggesting that self-administered treatments were effective was correct.

He wrote to Kepler suggesting a mechanical means to calculate ephemerides.

Heru was known to the Greeks as Horus, suggesting a compelling etymology for the word " horizon.

Mach suggesting more than 3 dimensions to make things explicable.