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suggest verb [ səˈdʒɛst ]

• put forward for consideration.
• "I suggest that we wait a day or two"
Similar: propose, put forward, submit, recommend, advocate, advise, propound, urge, encourage, counsel, move, table,
• cause one to think that (something) exists or is the case.
• "finds of lead coffins suggested a cemetery north of the river"
Similar: indicate, lead to the belief, give the impression, give the idea, argue, point to, demonstrate, show, evince, hint, insinuate, imply, intimate, drive at, get at,
Origin: early 16th century: from Latin suggest- ‘suggested, prompted’, from the verb suggerere, from sub- ‘from below’ + gerere ‘bring’.


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