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Definition of hypothecate

to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
pledge without delivery or title of possession

Similar Words: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, suppose

Hyponyms: reconstruct, construct, retrace, explicate, formulate, develop

Derivational Morphology: supposition, supposal, guess, conjecture, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis, possibility, theory, theorist, theoretician, theorizer, theoriser, theorization, theorisation, speculator

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