| Verb | 1. | suggest - make a proposal, declare a plan for somethingadvocate, recommend, urge - push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" advance, throw out - bring forward for consideration or acceptance; "advance an argument" proposition - suggest sex to; "She was propositioned by a stranger at the party" declare - state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with" | |
| 2. | suggest - imply as a possibility; "The evidence suggests a need for more clarification"imply - suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic make out - imply or suggest; "Your remarks make me out to be stupid" | |
| 3. | suggest - drop a hint; intimate by a hintclue in - provide someone with a clue; "Can you clue me in?" allude, advert, touch - make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" | |
| 4. | suggest - suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine; "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases"inform - impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to; "I informed him of his rights" | |
| 5. | suggest - call to mind or evokereek, smack - have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism" | |