verb
- Express a supposition.
- usage: "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money-what would you do"
- synonyms: say
- Expect, believe, or suppose.
- usage: "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"
- To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds.
- usage: "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
- synonyms: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate
- Take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand.
- usage: "I presuppose that you have done your work"
- synonyms: presuppose
- Require as a necessary antecedent or precondition.
- usage: "This step presupposes two prior ones"
- synonyms: presuppose
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