{
    "term": "imagine",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "imagine",
            "heSheIt": "imagines"
        },
        "pastSimple": "imagined",
        "pastParticiple": "imagined",
        "ingForm": "imagining"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to form a picture in your mind of what something might be like",
            "sensetop": "imagine somethingimagine (that)…imagine what, how, etc…imagine doing somethingimagine somebody/something doing somethingimagine somebody/something to be/do somethingimagine somebody/something/yourself (as) something",
            "labels": "(informal)(especially British English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The house was just as she had imagined it.",
                    "contextForm": "imagine something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Imagine my surprise** when I opened the door to find him standing there."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't imagine life without the children now."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**It's hard to imagine** a more cynical political strategy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Close your eyes and imagine (that) you are in a forest.",
                    "contextForm": "imagine (that)…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you imagine what it must be like to lose your job after 20 years?",
                    "contextForm": "imagine what, how, etc…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Imagine earning that much money!",
                    "contextForm": "imagine doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She imagined walking into the office and handing in her resignation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I **can just imagine** him saying that!",
                    "contextForm": "imagine somebody/something doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had imagined her to be older than that.",
                    "contextForm": "imagine somebody/something to be/do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He loved to imagine himself as the hero.",
                    "contextForm": "imagine somebody/something/yourself (as) something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I find it difficult to imagine her a grandmother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can imagine him really angry."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘He was furious.’ ‘**I can imagine**.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you imagine a world free from the drudgery of work?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can well imagine the atmosphere at home at this moment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If I'm late home my mother always imagines the worst."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't even begin to imagine the horrors that they have been through."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I could clearly imagine the scene in the office."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is difficult to imagine a world without money."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She could just imagine her mother's look of horror."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had fondly imagined that riding a mule would be easy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'd like to imagine that she's safe and happy somewhere."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had imagined that she'd get a warm welcome."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I started to imagine what he might say."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He hardly dared to imagine what else was going to be divulged."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Let us imagine what really might have happened."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She imagined walking onto the stage to huge applause."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I could hardly imagine living in such a remote and desolate spot."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I always imagined him following in his father's footsteps."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't actually imagine her falling for that trick."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The sight was disturbing as you can quite imagine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's more at stake here than you can possibly imagine."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["clearly", "easily", "readily"],
                "verb + imagine": ["can", "try to", "begin to"],
                "phrases": ["let us imagine"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to believe something that is not true",
            "sensetop": "imagine (that)…imagine something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He’s always imagining (that) we’re talking about him behind his back.",
                    "contextForm": "imagine (that)…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's nobody there. You're **imagining things**.",
                    "contextForm": "imagine something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He needed proof that he wasn't just imagining it all."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She knew she was simply imagining things."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["really", "seriously", "almost"],
                "verb + imagine": ["be easy to"],
                "phrases": [
                    "be imagining things",
                    "real and imagined",
                    "real or imagined"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to think that something is probably true",
            "sensetop": "imagine (that)…",
            "labels": "(British English)(North American English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘Can we still buy tickets for the concert?’ ‘I **imagine so**.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don’t imagine (that) they’ll refuse.",
                    "contextForm": "imagine (that)…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't imagine he'll get here now, do you?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You don't seriously imagine I'll agree to that?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I could almost imagine you were jealous."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You shouldn't imagine that he's anything but a ruthless man."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "suppose, assume",
            "topics": ["Doubt, guessing and certainty"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪn/",
                "audio": "im/imagine/imagine__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnz/",
                "audio": "im/imagine/imagines__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnd/",
                "audio": "im/imagine/imagined__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnɪŋ/",
                "audio": "im/imagine/imagining__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪn/",
                "audio": "im/imagine/imagine__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnz/",
                "audio": "im/imagine/imagines__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnd/",
                "audio": "im/imagine/imagined__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪˈmædʒɪnɪŋ/",
                "audio": "im/imagine/imagining__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French imaginer, from Latin imaginare ‘form an image of, represent’ and imaginari ‘picture to oneself’, both from imago, imagin- ‘image’."
}