Word Finder - imagined

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To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.

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Try to imagine a pink elephant.

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To believe in something created by one's own mind.

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She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.

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To assume

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I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.

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To conjecture or guess

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I cannot even imagine what you are up to!

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To use one's imagination

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Imagine that we were siblings.

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To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.

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Conceived or envisioned in the mind.

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Never return evil for evil that's either real or imagined.

She closed her eyes and imagined them home in Texas.

He imagined Jame's creaky voice chanting it with him.

She imagined all kinds of reasons why he wouldn't want her to go - none of them good.

It cushioned her bare feet the way she imagined a cloud might.

She imagined the surprised look on his face — what he would say.

He closed his eyes and imagined himself to be one of the great cats he tracked in the forest.

Megan closed her eyes and imagined she was in a rain forest along the Amazon.

Maybe she imagined his hand squeezing hers.

With trembling hands Natasha held that passionate love letter which Dolokhov had composed for Anatole, and as she read it she found in it an echo of all that she herself imagined she was feeling.

She skulked and imagined him doing the same in the back of the cave.

Maybe she had imagined a relationship that night in Texas.

Gods, it was better than I imagined!

She imagined him snarling over the book she pushed in and replacing the one she'd been reading.

This is even better than I had imagined.

She was (or imagined she was) putting on paper the things which had interested her.

That happened only when, as was the case that day, her husband returned home, or a sick child was convalescent, or when she and Countess Mary spoke of Prince Andrew (she never mentioned him to her husband, who she imagined was jealous of Prince Andrew's memory), or on the rare occasions when something happened to induce her to sing, a practice she had quite abandoned since her marriage.

And it was uglier than she imagined a spaceship to be.

She imagined he looked much like the man before her, thick and strong.

As the Guardian, he'd been her emotional support, and he'd imagined this look when she discussed how scared she was of what was going on outside the Peak.

It took too long for Brady to appear, and her stomach twisted as she imagined him blown to pieces.

I imagined fields full of blue flowered borage, with her bees busying themselves on it.

Assuming that she did go down to see him, Princess Mary imagined the words he would say to her and what she would say to him, and these words sometimes seemed undeservedly cold and then to mean too much.

In the distance was a dark swath of park leading up to the lit-up Eiffel Tower, which was larger than she'd imagined.

He deserved it for kissing her and making her feel things she never, ever, ever imagined she'd feel for any man, let alone a monster like him.

He had prepared for many scenarios, but this was beyond anything imagined.

It was so far removed from anything he had imagined.

A whole lot better than she had imagined.... yet still a blow.

Maybe it was because he took his time, or because there were so many opportunities that were passed over – whatever the case, it wasn't as unpleasant as she had imagined.

She walked through the gateway and imagined herself as important as the White God walking into his palace.

It was going to be much more pleasurable than she imagined.

Her gaze remained steady, daring him to do as he imagined.

Trying to balance her time between the children, Alex and her guests proved more difficult than she imagined.

Not unnaturally the training which the younger Mill received has aroused amazement and criticism; and it is reasonable to doubt whether the material knowledge which he retained in the result was as valuable to him as his father imagined.

The change in the situation is surely not greater than can be imagined within the lifetime of Paul.

We cannot here enter into the infinite details of the other subdivisions imagined by Joachim, or into his system of perpetual concordances between the New and the Old Testaments, which, according to him, furnish the prefiguration of the third age.

From these reveries he was at length awakened by news which indicated that the consequences of Macdonald's defeat had been far more serious to the moral of that command than he had imagined.

Under the influence of an applied electric force, he imagined that the B part of the first molecule was liberated at the anode, and that the A part thus isolated united with the B part of the second molecule, which, in its turn, passed on its A to the B of the third molecule.

As we have seen, Grotthus imagined that it was the electric forces which sheared the ions past each other and loosened the chemical bonds holding the opposite parts of each dissolved molecule together.

Arrhenius pointed out that these exceptions would be brought into line if the ions of electrolytes were imagined to be separate entities each capable of producing its own pressure effects just as would an ordinary dissolved molecule.

In algebra he discovered the method of approximating to the real roots of an equation by means of continued fractions, and imagined a general process of solving algebraical equations of every degree.

The two Andradas, who imagined they could govern the young emperor as a sovereign of their own creation, encountered great opposition in the constitutional assembly, which had been opened in Rio in May 1823, to discuss the project of a new constitution.

Roscellinus appears at first to have imagined that his tritheistic theory had the sanction of Lanfranc and Anselm, and the latter was led in consequence to compose his treatise De fide Trinitatis.

It was at first very naturally imagined that the simple revival of classical and especially of Greek literature would at once produce the same brilliant results in medicine as in literature and philosophy.

Not only so, but the physician, thus fascinated by "types," and impressed by the silent monumentsof the pathological museum, was led to localize disease too much, to isolate the acts of nature, and to forget not only the continuity of the phases which lead up to the exemplary forms, or link them together, but to forget also that even between the types themselves relations of affinity must exist - and these oftentimes none the less intimate for apparent diversities of form, for types of widely different form may be, and indeed often are, more closely allied than types which have more superficial resemblance - and to forget, moreover, how largely negative is the process of abstraction by which types are imagined.

In reality, a very liberal expenditure of artillery ammunition on the part of the fleet was doing considerably less damage to the Ottoman defences than the Allied sailors imagined to be the case.

They imagined that, like other nations, they would fallbefore their superior tactics and valour; and their cupidity was inflamed by the prospect of marching to Calcutta and plundering the country.

He considered the horizontal strata of this hyperboloid as always in motion, while the remainder of the water was in a state of rest, and imagined that there was a kind of cataract in the middle of the fluid.

Thus all historians are agreed with regard to the Babylonian chronology back to the year 747 B.C., and with regard to that of Assyria back to the year 911 B.C. It is in respect of the periods anterior to these two dates that different writers have propounded differing systems of chronology, and, as might be imagined, the earlier the period we examine the greater becomes the discrepancy between the systems proposed.

In endeavouring to make a pan of less power do as much and as good work as one of greater power, they have imagined many ingenious mechanical contrivances, such as currents produced mechanically to promote evaporation and crystallization, feeding the pan from many points in order to spread the feed equally throughout the mass of sugar being cooked, and so on.

His government, too, weighed heavily upon the people, and the king was less popular than is sometimes imagined.