conceived; conceiving
Definition of conceive
1a
: to become pregnant with (young)
conceive a child
b
: to cause to begin : originate
a project conceived by the company's founder
2a
: to take into one's mind
conceive a prejudice
b
: to form a conception of : imagine
a badly conceived design cleverly conceived teleplays
3
: to apprehend by reason or imagination : understand
unable to conceive his reasons It is easy enough to conceive the notion that your island is a sort of fortress.— Paul Theroux
4
: to have as an opinion
I cannot conceive that he acted alone.
1
: to become pregnant
2
: to have a conception
—usually used with of conceives of death as emptinessIt is hard to conceive of all the work that must have been involved in starting off from scratch.— Harold Fromm
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The first known use of conceive was in the 14th century
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