Definitions for conceive

conceive con·ceive

Spelling: [kuh n-seev]
IPA: /kənˈsiv/

Conceive is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in conceive (cceeinov).

Definitions for conceive

verb (used with object)

  1. to form (a notion, opinion, purpose, etc.):
  2. to form a notion or idea of; imagine.
  3. to hold as an opinion; think; believe:
  4. to experience or form (a feeling):
  5. to express, as in words.
  6. to become pregnant with.
  7. to beget.
  8. to begin, originate, or found (something) in a particular way (usually used in the passive):
  9. Archaic. to understand; comprehend.

verb (used without object)

  1. to form an idea; think (usually followed by of).
  2. to become pregnant.

Origin of conceive

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French conceivre Latin concipere to take fully, take in, equivalent to con- con- + -cipere, combining form of capere to tak

Examples for conceive

These military men find it hard to conceive that there might be no real policy at all.

What induced him to attempt this style it is difficult to conceive.

“The issue was how to conceive what the show was going to look and feel like,” says McKenzie.

To the artist, expression is the only mode under which he can conceive life at all.

Did you conceive of that look yourself, and how did you arrive at that look?

All loveliness, all grace, all majesty are there; but we cannot see, cannot conceive—come away!

Last year, as I began to conceive a novel, set in shadowy Istanbul, about the sale of a gray market antiquity worth millions.

You cannot conceive in your mind how stubborn and brainless they are.

One could conceive of it as possible to turn toward Him—and reach, the objective.

She also suggested that the government should help Japanese women who have fertility issues to conceive children.

Word Value for conceive
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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