suppose > define

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"
  • synonyms: think, opine, imagine, reckon, guess
• 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

• (v.t.) To represent to one's self or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?.
• (n.) Supposition.
• (v.t.) To put by fraud in the place of another.
• (v.t.) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
• (v.t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.
• (v.i.) To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.