indicate

Verb

• suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine
  • Tetracycline is indicated in such cases
    

• give evidence of
  • The evidence argues for your claim
    
  • The results indicate the need for more work
    

• to state or express briefly
  • indicated his wishes in a letter
    

• indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
  • I showed the customer the glove section
    
  • He pointed to the empty parking space
    
  • he indicated his opponents
    

• be a signal for or a symptom of
  • These symptoms indicate a serious illness
    
  • Her behavior points to a severe neurosis
    
  • The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  suggest , argue , point , designate , show , bespeak , betoken , signal