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Imagine (graphics software)

WordNet

(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?"

Wiktonary

, from , from .

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

This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs