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Thesaurus: suggest

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

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  1. v. t. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
  2. v. t. To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.
  3. v. t. To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
  4. v. t. To inform secretly.
  5. v. i. To make suggestions; to tempt.
  6. v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something
  7. v. drop a hint; intimate by a hint
  8. v. imply as a possibility
  9. v. call to mind
  10. v:100 v. imply as a possibility v. call to mind