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conceive (verb), conceives; conceived; conceiving
1. To think of something; such as, a new idea, a plan, or a design.
2. To imagine something or to think of doing something.
3. For a female, to become pregnant with an offspring, a baby, or babies: "I can't conceive that a woman of 90 could conceive, but the Bible says that Sara gave birth to Isaac when she was that age."
4. Etymology: from Latin concipere, conceptus, "to take in and to hold; to become pregnant"; from com-, "together, with" + capere, "to take".
2. To imagine something or to think of doing something.
3. For a female, to become pregnant with an offspring, a baby, or babies: "I can't conceive that a woman of 90 could conceive, but the Bible says that Sara gave birth to Isaac when she was that age."
4. Etymology: from Latin concipere, conceptus, "to take in and to hold; to become pregnant"; from com-, "together, with" + capere, "to take".
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cap-, cip-, capt-, cept-, ceive, -ceipt, -ceit, -cipient
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(Named after the Italian physician and physicist who investigated the nature and effects of what he conceived to be electricity in animal tissue; who in 1762 discovered and first described voltaic electricity; electric currents; and primarily, direct electrical current.)
(An American Dictionary of the English Language as conceived by Noah Webster)
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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