Verb

(suppos)

To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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To theorize or hypothesize.

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-06, author= David Cox

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To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

* (Bible), 2 (w) xiii. 32

Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men, the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead.

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As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.

To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.

Purpose supposes foresight.

* 1752 , (Charlotte Lennox), (The Female Quixote)

One falsehood always supposes another, and renders all you can say suspected.

To put by fraud in the place of another.

Verb

(en-verb)

To speak or to use words to express.

Bill became tongue-tied and could not verbalize his thoughts in the presence of the girl he had a crush on.

(grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.