conceiving

Verb

conceive (third-person singular simple present conceives, present participle conceiving, simple past and past participle conceived)

1. (ambitransitive) To have a child; to become pregnant (with).
   • Assisted procreation can help those trying to conceive.
2. (transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
   • It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC
3. (ambitransitive, ditransitive, with-of) To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.
   • Can you conceive of him as a leader?
4. (transitive) To understand (someone).
   • I conceive you.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 3, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC