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hypothecate
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of HYPOTHECATE
to take as true or as a fact without actual proof <even before a single vote had been cast, media pundits were hypothecating that the former senator would be the party's nominee>
Related Words accept, believe, credit, swallow; conclude, deduce, gather, infer, judge, take; conjecture, figure, guess, reckon [chiefly dialect], surmise, suspect, suspicion [chiefly dialect], think; conceive, dream, fancy, imagine, perceive, preconceive; speculate, theorize; affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, claim, contend, declare, insist, maintain, profess
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