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    con·ceive
    [kənˈsēv]
    verb
    conceive (verb) · conceives (third person present) · conceived (past tense) · conceived (past participle) · conceiving (present participle)
    1. become pregnant with (a child):
      "she was conceived when her father was 49"
      • (of a woman) become pregnant:
        "five months ago Wendy conceived"
    2. form or devise (a plan or idea) in the mind:
      "the dam project was originally conceived in 1977" · "a brilliantly conceived and executed robbery"
      • form a mental representation of; imagine:
        "without society an individual cannot be conceived as having rights" · "we could not conceive of such things happening to us"
      • literary
        become affected by (a feeling):
        "he conceived a passion for football"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old French concevoir, from Latin concipere, from com- ‘together’ + capere ‘take’.
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    verb
    1. form or devise (a plan or idea) in the mind:
      think up
      think of
      come up with
      dream up
      draw up
      devise
      form
      formulate
      design
      frame
      invent
      coin
      originate
      create
      develop
      evolve
      hatch
      cook up
      contrive
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