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SUPPOSE
- Used to make a reluctant or hesitant admission
- Used to introduce a hypothesis and trace or ask about what follows from it
- Used to introduce a suggestion
- (of a theory or argument) Assume or require that something is the case as a precondition
- Assume that something is the case on the basis of evidence or probability but without proof or certain knowledge
- to assume to be true [v SUPPOSED, SUPPOSES, SUPPOSING]
- Believe to exist or to possess a specified characteristic
- Be required to do something because of the position one is in or an agreement one has made
- Be forbidden to do something