transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmædʒɪn ]
( imagines, imagining, imagined)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you imagine something, you think about it and your mind forms a picture or idea of it.
He could not imagine a more peaceful scene...
Can you imagine how she must have felt when Mary Brent turned up with me in tow?...
Imagine you’re lying on a beach, listening to the steady rhythm of waves lapping the shore...
I can’t imagine you being unfair to anyone, Leigh.
VERB : V n / -ing , V wh , V that , V n -ing / prep
2.
If you imagine that something is the case, you think that it is the case.
I imagine you’re referring to Jean-Paul Sartre...
‘Was he meeting someone?’—‘I imagine so.’
= suppose
VERB : V that , V so/not
3.
If you imagine something, you think that you have seen, heard, or experienced that thing, although actually you have not.
I realised that I must have imagined the whole thing.
= dream
VERB : V n , also V that