[ US /kənˈsiv/ ]
[ UK /kənsˈiːv/ ]
VERB
  1. become pregnant; undergo conception
    My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day
    She cannot conceive
  2. judge or regard; look upon; judge
    I believe her to be very smart
    The racist conceives such people to be inferior
    I think he is very smart
    I think that he is her boyfriend
  3. have the idea for
    He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients
    This library was well conceived
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How To Use conceive In A Sentence

  • The landowner instantly conceives a dislike of the dog and demands that she be gotten rid of.
  • Ruling was in a sense a job, a calling, the only thing he knew how to do and could conceive of doing.
  • You must judge each film on its own merits, without any preconceived notions about what it's like.
  • He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • What Montgomery conceived was a one-two punch, a British blow followed by an American crack.
  • Does it really make sense to conceive of a tutorial existing in isolation?
  • It's difficult to conceive of living on the moon.
  • Quinn herself was keen to have the first test - a matter of weeks after William's birth - because she and her husband were undergoing fertility treatment at the time the child was conceived.
  • But it was the bowler's general bearing and neatness which charmed the young writer almost as much as the name he'd been seeking for his newly conceived character of a gentleman's gentleman. From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating
  • It may act as such, by suppressing ovulation, but it also works by making the lining of the womb hostile to the newly conceived embryo.
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