Offer vs. Suggest

Offer and Suggest Definitions
Offer
To present for acceptance or rejection; proffer
Offered me a drink.
Suggest
To offer for consideration or action; propose
Suggest things for children to do.
Suggested that we take a walk.
Offer
To put forward for consideration; propose
Offer an opinion.
Suggest
To express or say indirectly
The police officer seemed to be suggesting that the death was not an accident.
Offer
To present in order to meet a need or satisfy a requirement
Offered new statistics in order to facilitate the decision-making process.
Suggest
To make evident indirectly; intimate or imply
A silence that suggested disapproval.
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Offer
To present as an act of worship
Offer a prayer.
Suggest
To bring or call to mind by logic or association; evoke
A cloud that suggests a mushroom.
A ringlike symbol suggesting unity.
Offer
To propose as payment; bid
Offered only half what I was asking for the car.
Suggest
To serve as or provide a motive for; prompt or demand
Such a crime suggests apt punishment.
Offer
To make available; afford
The situation offers us the opportunity to learn more.
Suggest
(transitive) To imply but stop short of explicitly stating (something).
Are you suggesting that I killed my wife?
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Offer
To present for sale
Those boots are being offered at half price.
Suggest
(transitive) To cause one to suppose (something); to bring to one's mind the idea (of something).
The name "hamburger" suggests that hamburgers originated from Hamburg.
Offer
To provide; furnish
A hotel that offers conference facilities.
Suggest
(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it
He suggests that we celebrate with dinner at Bellissimo.
He suggests our celebrating with dinner at Bellissimo.
The guidebook suggests that we visit the local cathedral, which is apparently beautiful.
Offer
To exhibit readiness or desire (to do something); volunteer
Offered to carry the packages.
Suggest
To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
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Offer
To engage in; put up
Partisans who offered strong resistance to the invaders.
Suggest
To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection.
Offer
To threaten
Offered to leave without them if they didn't hurry.
Suggest
To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.
Offer
To produce or introduce on the stage
The repertory group is offering two new plays this season.
Suggest
To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.
Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested.
Offer
To present an offering in worship or devotion.
Suggest
To inform secretly.
Offer
To make an offer or proposal, especially of marriage.
Suggest
To make suggestions; to tempt.
And ever weaker grows through acted crime,Or seeming-genial, venial fault,Recurring and suggesting still.
Offer
To present itself
"This plan was dropped, because of its risk, and because a better offered" (T.E. Lawrence).
Suggest
Make a proposal, declare a plan for something
Offer
(Baseball) To swing at a pitch. Used of a batter.
Suggest
Imply as a possibility;
The evidence suggests a need for more clarification
Offer
The act of offering
An offer of assistance.
Suggest
Drop a hint; intimate by a hint
Offer
Something, such as a suggestion, proposal, bid, or recommendation, that is offered
Did you accept his offer for the car?.
Suggest
Suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine;
Tetracycline is indicated in such cases
Offer
(Law) A proposal that if accepted constitutes a legally binding contract.
Suggest
Call to mind or evoke
Offer
The condition of being offered, especially for sale
Thousands of bushels of wheat on offer.
Offer
A proposal that has been made.
What's in his offer?
I decline your offer to contract.
Offer
Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
His offer was $3.50 per share.
Offer
(legal) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.
His first letter was not a real offer, but an attempt to determine interest.
Offer
(used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off
Offer
(intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
She offered to help with her homework.
Offer
(transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
Everybody offered an opinion.
Offer
(transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
He offered use of his car for the week.
He offered his good will for the Councilman's vote.
Offer
(transitive) To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
Offer
To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
Offer
(transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
I offered twenty dollars for it. The company is offering a salary of £30,000 a year.
Offer
(intransitive) To happen, to present itself.
Offer
(obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
Offer
(transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive or defensive way; to threaten.
To offer violence to somebody
The peasants offered no resistance as they were rounded up.
Offer
To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; - often with up.
Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.
A holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices.
Offer
To bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage.
I offer thee three things.
Offer
To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest; as, to offer an opinion. With the infinitive as an objective: To make an offer; to declare one's willingness; as, he offered to help me.
Offer
To attempt; to undertake.
All that offer to defend him.
Offer
To bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a guinea for a ring; to offer a salary or reward.
Offer
To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc.
Offer
To present itself; to be at hand.
The occasion offers, and the youth complies.
Offer
To make an attempt; to make an essay or a trial; - used with at.
He would be offering at the shepherd's voice.
I will not offer at that I can not master.
Offer
The act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance.
Offer
That which is offered or brought forward; a proposal to be accepted or rejected; a sum offered; a bid.
When offers are disdained, and love denied.
Offer
Attempt; endeavor; essay; as, he made an offer to catch the ball.
Offer
The verbal act of offering;
A generous offer of assistance
Offer
Something offered (as a proposal or bid);
Noteworthy new offerings for investors included several index funds
Offer
A usually brief attempt;
He took a crack at it
I gave it a whirl
Offer
Make available or accessible, provide or furnish;
The conference center offers a health spa
The hotel offers private meeting rooms
Offer
Present for acceptance or rejection;
She offered us all a cold drink
Offer
Agree freely;
She volunteered to drive the old lady home
I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it
Offer
Put forward for consideration;
He offered his opinion
Offer
Offer verbally;
Extend my greetings
He offered his sympathy
Offer
Make available for sale;
The stores are offering specials on sweaters this week
Offer
Propose a payment;
The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting
Offer
Produce or introduce on the stage;
The Shakespeare Company is offering `King Lear' this month
Offer
Present as an act of worship;
Offer prayers to the gods
Offer
Mount or put up;
Put up a good fight
Offer resistance
Offer
Make available; provide;
Extend a loan
The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages
Offer
Ask (someone) to marry you;
He popped the question on Sunday night
She proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months
The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman
Offer
Threaten to do something;
I offered to leave the committee if they did not accept my proposal