suppose
/səˈpoʊz/ verb B1- To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe. · I suppose we all agree that this is the best solution.· I won't be back before midday, I don't suppose.
- To theorize or hypothesize. · Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.
- To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
- To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature. · Purpose supposes foresight.
He/she/it supposes · Past supposed · Past participle supposed · -ing form supposing
Verb forms
- Base form
- suppose
- He/she/it
- supposes
- Past
- supposed
- Past participle
- supposed
- -ing form
- supposing
From the library
I suppose Dinah’ll be sending me on messages next!” And she began fancying the sort of thing that would happen: “‘Miss Alice!
“If I eat one of these cakes,” she thought, “it’s sure to make _some_ change in my size; and as it can’t possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.”
I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great question is, what?”
“You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose— What made you so awfully clever?”
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