- hypothecate - pledge without delivery or title of possession
--1 is one way to pledge
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose - to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
--2 is one way to expect, anticipate
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun hypothesis3, noun hypothesis2
They hypothecate that there was a traffic accident
- speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose - to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"