visualize
verb/ˈvɪʒuəlaɪz/
/ˈvɪʒuəlaɪz/
(British English also visualise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they visualize | /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪz/ /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪz/ |
| he / she / it visualizes | /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪzɪz/ /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple visualized | /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪzd/ /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪzd/ |
| past participle visualized | /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪzd/ /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪzd/ |
| -ing form visualizing | /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪzɪŋ/ /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪzɪŋ/ |
- to form a picture of somebody/something in your mind synonym imagine
- visualize somebody/something/yourself (as something) Try to visualize him as an old man.
- visualize what, how, etc… I can't visualize what this room looked like before it was decorated.
- visualize somebody/something/yourself doing something It can help to visualize yourself making your speech clearly and confidently.
- visualize doing something She couldn't visualize climbing the mountain.
Extra Examples- I visualized him as a typical businessman.
- It is difficult to visualize how the town must have looked years ago.
- I asked him to visualize floating in a clear blue pool.
- I can't visualize what the house might have been like 300 years ago.
- Try to visualize yourself walking into the interview calmly and confidently.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- easily
- be able to
- be unable to
- can
- …
- as
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- visualize something (specialist) to make something able to be seen by the eye
- Ultrasound is a technique that uses sound waves to visualize internal structures.
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