Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: conceive
IPA transcription: [kəns'iv]
Pronunciations of conceive
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verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
    Meaning: have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"
  • Synonyms: think, believe, consider, conceive
    Meaning: judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
  • Synonyms: conceive
    Meaning: become pregnant; undergo conception; "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"
Usage examples
  • I can't conceive anything so terrible.
  • Impossible to conceive how that was ever done....
  • It frightens one to conceive of a world bereft of their presence.
  • "The next difficulty is to make Frank conceive the part of Falkland.
  • Said he: "The only alternatives to our method that I can conceive of are these.
  • Now, a white man can conceive great operations, and carry them out; a niggro can't."
  • I can conceive this kind of fraud to be very easily practised with successful effrontery.
  • A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it.
  • But yet it is hard to conceive that Socrates, the same individual man, should be two persons.
  • The Gun Club once founded, it is easy to conceive the result of the inventive genius of the Americans.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Jesus, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction, License CC BY-SA 4.0