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conceive
Overview of verb conceive
The verb conceive has 3 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (21) gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise -- (have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived")
2. (10) think, believe, consider, conceive -- (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")
3. (2) conceive -- (become pregnant; undergo conception; "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day")
Grep of noun conceive
conceiver
Antonyms of verb conceive
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb conceive
3 senses of conceive
Sense 1
gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
=> create by mental act, create mentally
=> make, create
Sense 2
think, believe, consider, conceive
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Sense 3
conceive
=> change state, turn
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb conceive
3 senses of conceive
Sense 1
gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
=> design
=> preconceive
=> discover, find
Sense 2
think, believe, consider, conceive
=> hold
=> rethink
=> think
=> think of, repute, regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to be
=> feel
=> see, consider, reckon, view, regard
Sense 3
conceive
=> superfetate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb conceive
3 senses of conceive
Sense 1
gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
=> create by mental act, create mentally
Sense 2
think, believe, consider, conceive
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
Sense 3
conceive
=> change state, turn
'Cause To' of verb conceive
Derived Forms of verb conceive
2 of 3 senses of conceive
Sense 1
gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
RELATED TO>(noun) conception#4
=> invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
RELATED TO>(noun) concept#1
=> concept, conception, construct
RELATED TO>(noun) conceiver#1
=> originator, conceiver, mastermind
Sense 3
conceive
RELATED TO>(adj) conceptive#1
=> conceptive, impregnable
RELATED TO>(noun) conception#2
=> conception
Domain of verb conceive
Domain Terms of verb conceive
Familiarity of verb conceive
conceive used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb conceive
3 senses of conceive
Sense 1
gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
EX: Did he conceive his major works over a short period of time?
Sense 2
think, believe, consider, conceive
*> Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 3
conceive
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb conceive
3 senses of conceive
Sense 1
gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
> create by mental act, create mentally
=> draw, make
=> re-create
=> give birth
=> schematize
=> invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge
=> gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
=> think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct
=> imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
=> plan, project, contrive, design
=> design, plan
=> write
=> evolve, germinate, develop
=> program, programme
=> construct
=> construct
Sense 2
think, believe, consider, conceive
> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> rate, rank, range, order, grade, place
=> stand
=> approve
=> disapprove
=> choose
=> prejudge
=> measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value
=> reappraise
=> reject
=> accept
=> think, believe, consider, conceive
=> calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast
=> expect, anticipate
=> impute, ascribe, assign, attribute
=> assign, attribute
=> disapprove, reject
=> declare, adjudge, hold
=> review, critique
=> fail
=> pass
=> test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay
Sense 3
conceive
> change state, turn
=> wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken
=> zonk out, pass out, black out
=> come to, revive, resuscitate
=> tense, tense up
=> relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down
=> reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down
=> gain, put on
=> dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel
=> cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise
=> conceive
=> secularize, secularise
=> citrate
=> equilibrate
=> fall
=> become, go, get
=> worsen, decline
=> better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate
=> disengage
=> overgrow
=> concentrate
=> break
=> acidify, acetify
=> alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify
=> ionize, ionise
=> ossify
=> catalyze, catalyse
=> get worse, relapse
=> fluctuate
=> explode, burst forth, break loose
=> die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
=> be born
=> cloud over
=> carbonize, carbonise
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, hot up, heat up
=> carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise
=> freeze
=> boil
=> burn, combust
=> emaciate
=> Frenchify
=> thin
=> thicken, inspissate
=> solvate
=> react
=> dissolve, fade out, fade away
=> empty, discharge
=> fill, fill up
=> homogenize, homogenise
=> homogenize, homogenise
=> curdle, clabber, clot
=> clot, coagulate
=> sour, turn, ferment, work
=> integrate
=> precipitate
=> calcify
=> coke
=> carnify
=> chondrify
=> emulsify
=> denitrify
=> esterify
=> etherify
=> thrombose
=> open, open up
=> close, shut
=> sorb, take up
=> calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it
=> thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish
=> emancipate, liberate
=> get into, tangle with
=> liquefy
=> erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb conceive
Sense 1
gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
=> create by mental act, create mentally
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Sense 2
think, believe, consider, conceive
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
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Sense 3
conceive
=> change state, turn
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Grep of verb conceive
conceive
conceive of
misconceive
preconceive
Grep of adj conceive
conceived
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