Imagine (AD&D magazine)
WordNet
verb
(1) Expect, believe, or suppose
"I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"
"I thought to find her in a bad state"
"He didn't think to find her in the kitchen"
"I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"
(2) Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
"Can you conceive of him as the president?"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
, from , from .
Verb
- To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
- Try to imagine a pink elephant.
- To believe in something created by one's own mind.
- She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.
- To assume.
- I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.
- To conjecture or guess.
- I cannot even imagine what you are up to!
- To use one's imagination.
- Imagine that we were siblings
- To guess or conjecture.
- Let me imagine - it's a ring!
- The board imagines the merger should increase profits about a quarter
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs