hypothecate meaning

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hypothecate (verb): pledge without delivery or title of possession.

hypothecate has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

hypothecate as a verb

  1. pledge without delivery or title of possession

    Type of: pledge

  2. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
    • Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps

    Synonyms: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, suppose

    Type of: expect

    Kinds: reconstruct, explicate

    Related forms: hypothesis

Scrabble score: 24 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with HY · words ending in TE · 11-letter words

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