conceive

v.构想,创造;v.怀孕,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
conceive (verb)
transitive verb
1.
a) to become pregnant with (young) - conceive a child
b) to cause to begin - originate a project conceived by the company's founder
2.
a) to take into one's mind - conceive a prejudice
b) to form a of - conception imagine a badly conceived design
3.
to apprehend by reason or imagination - understand unable to conceive his reasons
4.
intransitive verb
to have as an opinion - I cannot conceive that he acted alone
1.
to become pregnant
2.
to have a conception - usually used with of conceives of death as emptiness think
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
conceive (verb)
1.
to form a mental picture of
SYNONYMS:
conceit, conceive, conjure (up), dream, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, ideate, image, picture, see, vision, visualize
RELATED WORDS:
daydream, stargaze; hallucinate; re-create, reflect, relive, reminisce; contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, ruminate; concoct, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, plan, project; foresee, prefigure
conceive (verb)
2.
to have a clear idea of
SYNONYMS:
appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, behold, catch, catch on (to), cognize, compass, conceive, cotton (to on to), decipher, decode, dig, discern, get, grasp, grok, intuit, know, make, make out, perceive, recognize, register, savvy, see, seize, sense, tumble (to), twig, understand
RELATED WORDS:
absorb, digest, take in; realize; fathom, penetrate, pierce
NEAR ANTONYMS:
misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misperceive, misread, mistake, misunderstand
miss
conceive (verb)
3.
to have as an opinion
SYNONYMS:
allow, conceive, consider, deem, esteem, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, reckon, suppose, think
RELATED WORDS:
regard, view; accept, perceive; depend, rely, trust; assume, presume, presuppose, surmise; conclude, deduce, infer
NEAR ANTONYMS:
distrust, doubt, mistrust, question, suspect; disbelieve, discredit, reject
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