HYPOTHECATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypothecate mean? 

• HYPOTHECATE (verb)
  The verb HYPOTHECATE has 2 senses:

1. pledge without delivery or title of possession

2. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

  Familiarity information: HYPOTHECATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPOTHECATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hypothecate    ... he / she / it hypothecates   
Past simple: hypothecated   
Past participle: hypothecated   
-ing form: hypothecating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pledge without delivery or title of possession

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "hypothecate" is one way to...):

pledge (give as a guarantee)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

To believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

conjecture; hypothecate; hypothesise; hypothesize; speculate; suppose; theorise; theorize

Context example:

Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps

Hypernyms (to "hypothecate" is one way to...):

anticipate; expect (regard something as probable or likely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hypothecate"):

construct; reconstruct; retrace (reassemble mentally)

develop; explicate; formulate (elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They hypothecate that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

hypothesis (a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena)

hypothesis (a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence)