conceive
: to think of or create (something) in the mind
: to become pregnant
con·ceivedcon·ceiv·ing
Full Definition of CONCEIVE
transitive verb
1
a : to become pregnant with (young) <conceive a child>
b : to cause to begin : originate <a project conceived by the company’s founder>
2
a : to take into one’s mind <conceive a prejudice>
b : to form a conception of : imagine <a badly conceived design>
3
: to apprehend by reason or imagination : understand <unable toconceive his reasons>
4
: to have as an opinion <I cannot conceive that he acted alone>
intransitive verb
1
: to become pregnant
2
: to have a conception —usually used with of <conceives of death as emptiness>
— con·ceiv·er noun
