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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image]
2: picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President" [syn: envision, foresee]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1855 to picture to oneself <envisions a career dedicated to promoting peace> Synonyms: see think

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. envisage, visualize.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(envisions, envisioning, envisioned) If you envision something, you envisage it. (AM; also BRIT LITERARY) In the future we envision a federation of companies... Most people do stop at this point, not envisioning that there is anything beyond. = imagine VERB: V n, V that, also V wh

Moby Thesaurus

anticipate, call to mind, call up, conceive, conjure up, contemplate, envisage, fancy, feature, forecast, foreglimpse, foresee, foretaste, have in mind, have in view, image, imagine, just see, look ahead, look beyond, look forward to, look upon, meditate, objectify, picture, predict, prophesy, realize, regard, represent, see, see ahead, see beforehand, summon up, view, viewpoint, vision, visualize