(~s, imagining, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ something, you think about it and your mind forms a picture or idea of it.
He could not ~ a more peaceful scene...
Can you ~ 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 ~ you being unfair to anyone, Leigh.
VERB: V n/-ing, V wh, V that, V n -ing/prep
2.
If you ~ that something is the case, you think that it is the case.
I ~ you’re referring to Jean-Paul Sartre...
‘Was he meeting someone?’—‘I ~ so.’
= suppose
VERB: V that, V so/not
3.
If you ~ something, you think that you have seen, heard, or experienced that thing, although actually you have not.
I realised that I must have ~d the whole thing.
= dream
VERB: V n, also V that