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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" [syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-sized; -sizing) Date: 1738 intransitive verb to make a hypothesis transitive verb to adopt as a hypothesis

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (also -ise) 1 intr. frame a hypothesis. 2 tr. assume a hypothesis. Derivatives: hypothesist n. hypothesizer n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hypothesizes, hypothesizing, hypothesized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'hypothesise' If you hypothesize that something will happen, you say that you think that thing will happen because of various facts you have considered. (FORMAL) To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected... I have long hypothesized a connection between these factors. VERB: V that, V n, also V

Moby Thesaurus

analyze, apply reason, deduce, entertain a theory, espouse a theory, generalize, have a theory, infer, intellectualize, logicalize, logicize, philosophize, provide a rationale, rationalize, reason, speculate, syllogize, synthesize, theorize, use reason