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imagin'd

imagin'd is the simple past and past participle of imagine.

Meaning of imagine

Verb

imagine (third-person singular simple present imagines, present participle imagining, simple past and past participle imagined)

  1. (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
    • Try to imagine a pink elephant.
    Synonyms:
    project, see, fancy
  2. (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.
    • She imagined that the man wanted to kill her.
    Synonyms:
    fancy
  3. (transitive) To assume; to suppose.
    • I imagine that he will need to rest after such a long flight.
  4. (transitive) To conjecture; to guess.
    • I cannot even imagine what you are up to!
  5. (intransitive) To use one's imagination.
    • Imagine that we were siblings.
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
    • How long wil ye imagine miſchiefe againſt a man?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 62:3, column 1

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Questions about imagin'd

What is imagin'd the simple past and past participle of?
Imagin'd is the simple past and past participle of imagine.

Words near imagin'd in the dictionary

  1. imagesetters
  2. imagesetting
  3. imagey
  4. imagic
  5. imagin
  6. imagin'd
  7. imaginability
  8. imaginable
  9. imaginableness
  10. imaginably
  11. imaginal

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