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{
"term": "imagine",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "imagine",
"heSheIt": "imagines"
},
"pastSimple": "imagined",
"pastParticiple": "imagined",
"ingForm": "imagining"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to form a picture in your mind of what something might be like",
"sensetop": "imagine somethingimagine (that)…imagine what, how, etc…imagine doing somethingimagine somebody/something doing somethingimagine somebody/something to be/do somethingimagine somebody/something/yourself (as) something",
"labels": "(informal)(especially British English)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The house was just as she had imagined it.",
"contextForm": "imagine something"
},
{
"text": "**Imagine my surprise** when I opened the door to find him standing there."
},
{
"text": "I can't imagine life without the children now."
},
{
"text": "**It's hard to imagine** a more cynical political strategy."
},
{
"text": "Close your eyes and imagine (that) you are in a forest.",
"contextForm": "imagine (that)…"
},
{
"text": "Can you imagine what it must be like to lose your job after 20 years?",
"contextForm": "imagine what, how, etc…"
},
{
"text": "Imagine earning that much money!",
"contextForm": "imagine doing something"
},
{
"text": "She imagined walking into the office and handing in her resignation."
},
{
"text": "I **can just imagine** him saying that!",
"contextForm": "imagine somebody/something doing something"
},
{
"text": "I had imagined her to be older than that.",
"contextForm": "imagine somebody/something to be/do something"
},
{
"text": "He loved to imagine himself as the hero.",
"contextForm": "imagine somebody/something/yourself (as) something"
},
{
"text": "I find it difficult to imagine her a grandmother."
},
{
"text": "I can imagine him really angry."
},
{
"text": "‘He was furious.’ ‘**I can imagine**.’"
},
{
"text": "Can you imagine a world free from the drudgery of work?"
},
{
"text": "I can well imagine the atmosphere at home at this moment."
},
{
"text": "If I'm late home my mother always imagines the worst."
},
{
"text": "I can't even begin to imagine the horrors that they have been through."
},
{
"text": "I could clearly imagine the scene in the office."
},
{
"text": "It is difficult to imagine a world without money."
},
{
"text": "She could just imagine her mother's look of horror."
},
{
"text": "I had fondly imagined that riding a mule would be easy."
},
{
"text": "I'd like to imagine that she's safe and happy somewhere."
},
{
"text": "She had imagined that she'd get a warm welcome."
},
{
"text": "I started to imagine what he might say."
},
{
"text": "He hardly dared to imagine what else was going to be divulged."
},
{
"text": "Let us imagine what really might have happened."
},
{
"text": "She imagined walking onto the stage to huge applause."
},
{
"text": "I could hardly imagine living in such a remote and desolate spot."
},
{
"text": "I always imagined him following in his father's footsteps."
},
{
"text": "I can't actually imagine her falling for that trick."
},
{
"text": "The sight was disturbing as you can quite imagine."
},
{
"text": "There's more at stake here than you can possibly imagine."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["clearly", "easily", "readily"],
"verb + imagine": ["can", "try to", "begin to"],
"phrases": ["let us imagine"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to believe something that is not true",
"sensetop": "imagine (that)…imagine something",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He’s always imagining (that) we’re talking about him behind his back.",
"contextForm": "imagine (that)…"
},
{
"text": "There's nobody there. You're **imagining things**.",
"contextForm": "imagine something"
},
{
"text": "He needed proof that he wasn't just imagining it all."
},
{
"text": "She knew she was simply imagining things."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["really", "seriously", "almost"],
"verb + imagine": ["be easy to"],
"phrases": [
"be imagining things",
"real and imagined",
"real or imagined"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to think that something is probably true",
"sensetop": "imagine (that)…",
"labels": "(British English)(North American English)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘Can we still buy tickets for the concert?’ ‘I **imagine so**.’"
},
{
"text": "I don’t imagine (that) they’ll refuse.",
"contextForm": "imagine (that)…"
},
{
"text": "I don't imagine he'll get here now, do you?"
},
{
"text": "You don't seriously imagine I'll agree to that?"
},
{
"text": "I could almost imagine you were jealous."
},
{
"text": "You shouldn't imagine that he's anything but a ruthless man."
}
],
"synonyms": "suppose, assume",
"topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪn/",
"audio": "im/imagine/imagine__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnz/",
"audio": "im/imagine/imagines__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnd/",
"audio": "im/imagine/imagined__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnɪŋ/",
"audio": "im/imagine/imagining__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪn/",
"audio": "im/imagine/imagine__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnz/",
"audio": "im/imagine/imagines__us_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnd/",
"audio": "im/imagine/imagined__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnɪŋ/",
"audio": "im/imagine/imagining__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French imaginer, from Latin imaginare ‘form an image of, represent’ and imaginari ‘picture to oneself’, both from imago, imagin- ‘image’."
}