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con​ceive
verb
con·​ceive
kən-ˈsēv
con​ceived; con​ceiv​ing

Definition

  • transitive ​verb
  • to become pregnant with (young) //conceive a child
    to cause to begin originate //a project conceived by the company's founder
  • to take into one's mind //conceive a prejudice
    to form a conception of imagine //a badly conceived design //cleverly conceived teleplays
  • to apprehend by reason or imagination understand //unable to conceive his reasons //It is easy enough to conceive the notion that your island is a sort of fortress. — Paul Theroux
  • to have as an opinion //I cannot conceive that he acted alone.
  • intransitive ​verb
  • to become pregnant
  • to have a conception —usually used with of //conceives of death as emptiness //It is hard to conceive of all the work that must have been involved in starting off from scratch. — Harold Fromm
Other Words
  • con​ceiv​er noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
conceit [chiefly dialect] conjure (up) dream envisage envision fancy fantasize fantasy feature ideate image imagine picture see vision visualize
Examples