hypothecate

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. pledge without delivery or title of possession
• Hypernyms:
pledge
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
- Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
• Syn:
speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize,
hypothesise, suppose
• Derivationally related forms:
supposition (for: suppose), supposal (for: suppose), hypothesis, hypothesis (for: hypothesize), conjecture (for: conjecture), theoriser (for: theorise), theorisation (for: theorise), theory (for: theorise), theorizer (for: theorize), theory (for: theorize), speculative (for: speculate), speculation (for: speculate), speculator (for: speculate)
• Hypernyms:
expect, anticipate
• Hyponyms:
reconstruct, construct, retrace, explicate, formulate, develop
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- They hypothecate that there was a traffic accident

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, suppose