Envisage

Quick meaning: Envisage is a verb meaning (transitive) To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.

Meaning

(transitive) To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.

Example Sentences

From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.

Cambridge-St Ives was another 1970 victim. Who would have envisaged that £200m would ever be spent on this rural branch to convert it into a guided busway?

Obviously, Schmitt envisaged Nazi Germany as the Reich at the heart of the European great space, which he sought to shield from Anglo-American interference.

The prototype Liner train vehicles on show at Marylebone were not of the ultimate pattern either, for their wagon platform length is 42½ft, whereas 62½ft as envisaged as standard.

Word Forms

• envisages
• envisaging
• envisaged

Synonyms for envisage

Depending on context, synonyms include ideate, imagine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imagine, ideate, envision, conceive, imagining, thinking.

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