propose
/pɹəˈpoʊz/ verb B1- To suggest a plan, course of action, etc. · I propose going to see a film.· to propose an alliance
- To ask for a person's hand in marriage. · He proposed to her last night and she accepted him.
- To intend. · He proposes to set up his own business.
He/she/it proposes · Past proposed · Past participle proposed · -ing form proposing
Verb forms
- Base form
- propose
- He/she/it
- proposes
- Past
- proposed
- Past participle
- proposed
- -ing form
- proposing
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As we made our way to the hospital after leaving the Holborn, Stamford gave me a few more particulars about the gentleman whom I proposed to take as a fellow-lodger.
You proposed this arrangement, so you must not hold me responsible.”
No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.
An old man, decorated with the cross of Saint Louis, now rose and proposed the health of King Louis XVIII.
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