Crossword-Solution: PROPOSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Propose | v. | To set forth. |
| Propose | v. | To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office. |
| Propose | v. | To set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend. |
| Propose | v. i. | To speak; to converse. |
| Propose | v. i. | To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes. |
| Propose | v. i. | To offer one's self in marriage. |
| Propose | n. | Talk; discourse. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| PROPOSE | anagram | OPPOSER |
We have 51 clues for the answer “PROPOSE”
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "PROPOSE"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
15 +1
New Suggestion for "PROPOSE"
Related word tools
Sentences with PROPOSE (5)
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Alexandra did not propose any reforms in the care of the pigs, and they hoped she had forgotten Ivar’s talk.
Then the old mouse said: “It is easy to propose impossible remedies.” The Hare and the Tortoise The Hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals.
Enfield up, but the place is really not fit.” “Why then,” said the lawyer, good-naturedly, “the best thing we can do is to stay down here and speak with you from where we are.” “That is just what I was about to venture to propose,” returned the doctor with a smile.
Did those present constitute a group with sufficient common interests to propose a next step or next steps, and if so, what might those be? They would return to these questions the following afternoon.
Quotes with PROPOSE (3)
Almost all arguments for skepticism make reference to seemingly ridiculous possibilities — we are being deceived by an evil demon, life is just a dream, we are brains in vats. You might propose psychoanalysis, rather than philosophical reflection, for anyone who worries about these possibilities.
Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly contradicting the moral basis of slavery, writing "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights ..." thus undercutting simultaneously any argument that Africans were racially inferior, and also that they or their ancestors could ever have been justly and legally deprived o…
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 43 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).