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hypothetize

hypothetize is the alternative form of hypothesize.

Meaning of hypothesize

Verb

hypothesize (third-person singular simple present hypothesizes, present participle hypothesizing, simple past and past participle hypothesized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, ambitransitive) To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.
    • When hormones signal breast cells to divide more rapidly, scientists hypothesize, they increase breast cancer risk by causing precancerous or cancerous cells to multiply.1996, Public Health Reports, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources Administration

Forms of hypothetize

third-person singular presenthypothetizes
present participlehypothetizing
past participlehypothetized
pasthypothetized

Questions about hypothetize

What is hypothetize the alternative form of?
Hypothetize is the alternative form of hypothesize.

Words near hypothetize in the dictionary

  1. hypothetised
  2. hypothetises
  3. hypothetising
  4. hypothetist
  5. hypothetists
  6. hypothetize
  7. hypothetized
  8. hypothetizes
  9. hypothetizing
  10. hypothiocyanate
  11. hypothiocyanates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypothetize (page history and authors); hypothesize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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