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imagine

/ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/ verbe A1

En français : imaginer

  1. To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind. (transitive) · Try to imagine a pink elephant.· Imagine yourself in a packed airport lounge.
  2. To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false. (transitive) · She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.· There's nothing there; you're just imagining things.
  3. To assume; to suppose. (transitive) · I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.
  4. To conjecture; to guess. (transitive) · I cannot even imagine what you are up to!· The board imagines the merger will increase profits by 25%
  5. To use one's imagination. (intransitive) · Imagine that we were siblings.
  6. Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through. (transitive) · Imagine thinking that would work.

Pluriel imagine · He/she/it imagines · Prétérit imagined · Participe passé imagined · Forme en -ing imagining

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Dans la bibliothèque

Imagine her surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the name “Alice!”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 90 · B2
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.
The Jungle Book, p. 56 · B2
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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 14 · C1
You could imagine you were dwelling in marble halls, couldn’t you?
Anne of Green Gables, p. 14 · C1

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