HYPOTHECATE

Definition:

1. [verb] pledge without delivery or title of possession
   
   
2. [verb] to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
   Synonyms: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, suppose
   
   

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Related Words:

• reconstruct, construct, retrace
• explicate, formulate, develop