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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, visualizeRELATED WORDS:
daydream, stargaze; hallucinate; re-create, reflect, relive, reminisce; contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, ruminate; concoct, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, plan, project; foresee, prefigure2.
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, understandRELATED WORDS:
absorb, digest, take in; realize; fathom, penetrate, pierceNEAR ANTONYMS:
misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misperceive, misread, mistake, misunderstand3.
to have as an opinion
SYNONYMS:
allow, conceive, consider, deem, esteem, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, reckon, suppose, thinkRELATED WORDS:
regard, view; accept, perceive; depend, rely, trust; assume, presume, presuppose, surmise; conclude, deduce, inferNEAR ANTONYMS:
distrust, doubt, mistrust, question, suspect; disbelieve, discredit, reject