imagine
/ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/ verb A1- To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind. · Try to imagine a pink elephant.· Imagine yourself in a packed airport lounge.
- To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false. · She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.· There's nothing there; you're just imagining things.
- To assume; to suppose. · I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.
- To conjecture; to guess. · I cannot even imagine what you are up to!· The board imagines the merger will increase profits by 25%
- To use one's imagination. · Imagine that we were siblings.
- Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through. · Imagine thinking that would work.
Plural imagine · He/she/it imagines · Past imagined · Past participle imagined · -ing form imagining
Verb forms
- Base form
- imagine
- He/she/it
- imagines
- Past
- imagined
- Past participle
- imagined
- -ing form
- imagining
From the library
Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the name “Alice!”
If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.
I was beginning to be afraid you weren’t coming for me and I was imagining all the things that might have happened to prevent you.
You could imagine you were dwelling in marble halls, couldn’t you?
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