Visualise

verb

verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British spelling of visualize.

    "In our own poetry we get from [Geoffrey] Chaucer the first instance of self-analysis and description, the first case of visualising self."

  2. 2
    make visible wordnet
  3. 3
    imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind wordnet
  4. 4
    form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract wordnet
  5. 5
    view the outline of by means of an X-ray wordnet

Synonyms

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depictenvisionfancyfigureimagepicture

Example

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"Can you visualise how the garden will look once the flowers are in bloom?"

Etymology

From visual + -ise (a variant of -ize (suffix forming verbs denoting the doing or making of what is denoted by the adjectives or nouns to which it is attached)).

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