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单词 presuppose
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presupposeverb [ T ]

uk/ˌpriː.səˈpəʊz/us/ˌpriː.səˈpoʊz/

to accept that something is true before it has been proved:

[ + that ] You're presupposing that he'll have told her - but he may not have.

formal If an idea or situation presupposes something, that thing must be true for the idea or situation to work:

Investigative journalism presupposes some level of investigation.
[ + that ] All this presupposes that he'll get the job he wants.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Guessing, supposing and suspecting

  • approximate
  • as much idiom
  • call
  • conjecture
  • consider
  • deem
  • divine
  • fall
  • hypothesize
  • jump
  • jump to conclusions idiom
  • mark
  • mark sb down as sth
  • misjudge
  • pluck
  • presume
  • smell
  • speculate
  • think
  • think of sth/sb

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presupposeverb [ T ]

us/ˌpri·səˈpoʊz/fml

to think that something is true in advance without having any proof, or to consider that something is necessarily true if something else is true:

[ + that clause ] You’re presupposing that he told her – but he may not have.
Teaching presupposes a formal education.
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