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CONCEIVE
- to understand [v CONCEIVED, CONCEIVING, CONCEIVES]
- to understand (to grasp mentally) [v CONCEIVED, CONCEIVES, CONCEIVING]
- take into one's mind conceive a prejudice
- to become pregnant with (young) conceive a child
- cause to begin originate a project conceived by the company's founder
- form a conception of imagine a badly conceived design
- apprehend by reason or imagination understand unable to conceive his reasons
- have as an opinion I cannot conceive that he acted alone
- become pregnant
- have a conception usually used with of conceives of death as emptiness