CONCEIVE

v. 1 have, bear, beget, sire, father, give birth to; become pregnant (with) After the twins, they conceived three boys 2 formulate, devise, plan, contrive, create, plot, hatch, develop, evolve, fabricate, think or make up, form, frame, design He conceived a scheme for swindling that poor woman out of her life savings 3 think (up), imagine, speculate (on), perceive, see, understand, realize, comprehend, envision, envisage, conjure up, dream up, hypothesize, postulate, posit, suggest, suppose I cannot conceive of any reason why she shouldn't be allowed to take part