hypothesise

Meanings

verbhypothesise (third-person singular simple present hypothesises, present participle hypothesising, simple past and past participle hypothesised)

present singular third person hypothesises · participle present hypothesising · participle past hypothesised · past hypothesised · alternative US hypothesize

UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of hypothesize.
They hypothesise the behaviour might have evolved as a means to avoid predators at the bottom of bodies of water.
2021 July 8, Donna Lu, “Beetle that can walk upside down under water surface filmed in Australia in world first”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Dec 2021
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One path to salvation is that laid out by Lord May. An atheist, and president of the British Science Association, he hypothesises that religion could in fact be a protective mechanism thrown up by evolutionary processes to terrify people into prudence.
2010 March 31, Alan Wilson, “Redemption from the inside out”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2021
He went further, hypothesising that such an entity might devise the modern, psychological conception of possession as a function of the subject's own psyche: "since nothing is more dangerous to a possessor than being seen as a separate invading creature by the host it has invaded".
2014 February 1, Will Self, “William Burroughs - the original Junkie”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2019
Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.
2017 May 3, Mark Carnall, “Finding zombies, ghosts and Elvis in the fossil record”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2022