Mean and Suggest

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Mean verb - To communicate or convey (as an idea) to the mind.

Usage example: the national anthem means various things to various people

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Suggest is a synonym for mean in signify topic. In some cases you can use "Suggest" instead a verb "Mean", when it comes to topics like imply.

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

Suggest verb - To convey an idea indirectly.

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Mean is a synonym for suggest. You can use "Mean" instead a verb "Suggest".

love	mean love	suggest love
woman	mean woman	suggest woman
people	mean people	suggest people
kind	mean kind	suggest kind
Other words: name, death, time, way, world, nothing, war.

Ensign Munro tries to suggest maybe their creator didn't mean for them to go around hacking other races to pieces and taking their stuff, but the big guy's not having any of it.

Source: Video Game / Star Trek: Elite Force
They're not the mean, aggressive team as their looks suggest; they're just a bunch of jokesters.◊ Delina the Crafting Faerie.

Source: Franchise / Neopets
Some dialogue with NPCs even suggest that Pokémon eggs aren't even eggs in the biological sense and are more like "cradles"... Whatever that's supposed to mean.

Source: Bizarre Alien Reproduction

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