Word Finder - imagining

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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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Something imagined; a figment of the imagination.

It's been more than that for a long time - or am I only imagining things?

After making a few turns, Fred realized he wasn't imagining the car was tailing him.

She stared at a helicopter as it lifted nimbly into the air, imagining Mr. Tim and other politicians aboard it.

That was something she had trouble imagining, but the wrought iron design was open and graceful.

Standing out here imagining the worst wasn't doing any more good than pumping Katie.

She should be supporting him, not moping around imagining the worst.

Lana sat back in her chair, imagining a simpler life with her Guardian.

Imagining himself sure of a brilliant destiny in Europe if he lost his Brazilian crown, the emperor attempted to risk a decisive attack against the Liberals, and to form a new ministry composed of men favourable to absolutism.

Such a thought can hardly be Micah's, even if we resort to the violent harmonistic process of imagining that two quite distinct sieges, separated by a renewal of the theocracy, are spoken of in consecutive verses.

To those who maintained the existence of a plenum as a philosophical principle, nature's abhorrence of a vacuum was a sufficient reason for imagining an all-surrounding aether, even though every other argument should be against it.

Imagining, as we may well do, that the radius of this sphere is infinite - then every direction, whatever the origin, may be represented by a point on its surface.

I got so depressed when you never called, and I started imagining all sorts of things.

If instead of imagining to ourselves commanders of genius leading the Russian army, we picture that army without any leaders, it could not have done anything but make a return movement toward Moscow, describing an arc in the direction where most provisions were to be found and where the country was richest.

It might be just me imagining it though.

Death didn't come.  Darkness fell, and Rhyn waited.  He paced and stretched, imagining there would be some kind of a struggle.  At long last, he forced himself to admit she wasn't coming.  No one could've overlooked the blow he dealt her underworld.  The trees all around them had died off with a tear forming in the earth that led in the direction of the palace.

Was she imagining things, or did his fingertips actually linger to caress her palm?

Darian watched the confused Grey God leave, never imagining he'd deal daily with this type of drama in addition to managing the battles against the vamps in the western hemisphere.

Dusty waited to hear Jule's voice, never imagining how happy he would be to hear from either of his brothers again.

After making a few turns, Fred realized he was-n't imagining the car was tailing him.

It's tantamount, really, to imagining Bill Clinton as celibate, William Hague as hip or Jackie Collins as a Bronte sister.

Anyway, glad to know I wasn't imagining it - he did look very sulky.

Brain imagining studies (MRI and fMRI) include development of an automated method to localize cortical tubers.

In the natural process of growth, the gap must necessarily be wider between the summits of the twigs than lower down, and, instead of imagining " missing links," it is necessary to trace each separate branch as low down as possible, and to institute the comparisons between the lowest points that can be reached.

The image of a centaur seems asimuch external to the mind as any object of sense; and since the difference between imagination and perception is only one of degree, God could so act upon the mind of a person imagining a centaur, that he would perceive it as vividly as any object can be seen.

It 's tantamount, really, to imagining Bill Clinton as celibate, William Hague as hip or Jackie Collins as a Bronte sister.

Some visitors had a creative time imagining the exciting stories the objects have to tell and making their own storyboards !

Anyway, glad to know I was n't imagining it - he did look very sulky.

At a time when the snowflakes have begun to settle in, imagining a warm garden oasis is quite a treat.

If you're imagining clunky, workhorse glasses, don't worry.

Creative visualization, for example, imagining a switch the child can use to control his fear when visiting the doctor or dentist, can sometimes be effective.

Others find that imagining a white light hovering over the painful area can actually lessen the pain for brief periods.

Am I imagining this or is this what is happening?"

Is he or she really stepping out of line or are you just imagining things?

It can also give kids a kick-start in imagining their own backyard adventures.

Many little girls enjoy playing dress up and imagining what it would be like to have a different persona.

However, kids can have just as much fun using real household items and imagining whatever other items are needed.

Imagining how frightening it can be on the big screen makes this a new movie that fans have been awaiting for some time.

Do some practice runs on your own, such as imagining who is on the other end of a ringing telephone or chiming doorbell.

The cross that most people picture when they are imagining a Christian cross is actually known as the Latin Cross, or crux ordinaria.

Whatever method aids your gradual descent into peaceful mindfulness is what you should do during this time, whether it's deep breathing, imagining a lush forest, or hearing the crash of waves on the shore.

Be creative when imagining the possibilities, making a list of everything that comes to mind.

If you do, you are well on your way to imagining sparkle fingers.

The squat is performed by bending both knees and imagining that you are about to sit back on a big chair.

However, before they got their own show chronicling their lives in Tontitown, Arkansas, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar started imagining their dream home.

I knew what it was, and I held it in my hands for several minutes before opening it, imagining what I wanted on the cover art.

He held her, never imagining anything could feel so right despite the rain and cold.

She closed her eyes, body on fire as she drank from him while imagining what his mouth could do to the rest of her body.

Her heart slowed, and she stepped back, imagining the Immortal fighting off some demon that had stayed hidden until dark.

Unwilling to see her death, she closed her eyes, never imagining she'd ever be hurtling towards some distant planet in an escape pod booby-trapped to kill her!

Sarah looked sympathetically at her, assuming she was imagining things.