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To offer for consideration or action; propose: suggest things for children to do; suggested that we take a walk.
(verb-transitive)
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To bring or call to mind by logic or association; evoke: a cloud that suggests a mushroom; a ringlike symbol suggesting unity.
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To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply: a silence that suggested disapproval.
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To serve as or provide a motive for; prompt or demand: Such a crime suggests apt punishment.
(verb-transitive)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.