suggest

sug·gest

1. To offer for consideration or action; propose: suggest things for children to do; suggested that we take a walk.
2. To bring or call to mind by logic or association; evoke: a cloud that suggests a mushroom; a ringlike symbol suggesting unity.
3. To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply: a silence that suggested disapproval.
4. To serve as or provide a motive for; prompt or demand: Such a crime suggests apt punishment.

Origin: Latin suggerere, suggest- : sub-, up; see sub-  + gerere, to carry.

Related Forms:

• suggester sug·gestˈer noun