"imagine" meaning in English

See imagine in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/ Audio: en-us-imagine.ogg [US] Forms: imagine [canonical], imagines [third-person, singular], imagined [past], imagined [past, participle], imagining [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb|imagin|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you imagine something, you make a picture of it in your head.
    Sense id: simple-imagine-en-verb-iDzJan94
  2. If you imagine something, you think or believe it without knowing.
    Sense id: simple-imagine-en-verb-q0peYBpX
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          "text": "Imagine that you're sitting at a table with all the food you can eat."
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          "text": "I imagined myself fighting a monster."
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          "text": "I imagined myself in a forest while an animal was chasing after me."
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          "text": "I felt creepy when I imagined a spider crawling on me."
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          "text": "It feels fun to imagine myself in the 50s and 90s, I wasn't even born in those decades."
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          "text": "I imagine everybody will be there."
        },
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