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envisage

en·vis·age [ in vízzij, en vízzij ] (past and past participle en·vis·aged, present participle en·vis·ag·ing, 3rd person present singular en·vis·ag·es)


transitive verb 
Definition:
 
1. foresee something: to conceive of and contemplate a future possibility
Do you envisage being able to avert a crisis?

2. visualize something: to form a mental picture of something or somebody

3. consider something: to regard something in a particular way

[Early 19th century. < French envisager< visage "face" (see visage)]
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