conceive

v

1. think, opine, conjecture, surmise, fancy; speculate, suppose, assume, presume, Archaic. trow; reckon, perceive, apprehend, understand, comprehend, see; contrive, devise, cogitate, concoct, excogitate; plot, plan, compass, design, purpose; fashion, fabricate, hatch, invent, scheme; create, formulate, form, frame, draft; coin, mint, neologize, neoterize.

2. imagine, envision, think up, dream up, make up, conjure up, Inf. feature; dream, picture, envisage, ideate, image, visualize.

3. think, believe, hold, maintain, dare say; consider, regard, look upon; acknowledge, deem, recognize; judge, conclude, deduce, infer; posit, postulate, hypothesize, theorize.

4. beget, procreate, father, sire; generate, engender, propagate, reproduce; become impregnated, become pregnant, become fertilized, come with child.

5.{usu. in passive) found, originate, give birth to, institute, establish, constitute; begin, initiate, start, occasion, bring about, set up.