conceived
kuhn-SEEVD/kənˈsiːvd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of conceive.
The architect conceived the building as a single sweeping curve.
The charity was conceived during a long conversation about local poverty.
Note
One -ed form does double duty: alone it is the simple past (she conceived), and after have or be it is the participle of perfect and passive clauses. The passive covers both lines of meaning, since a child, a plan or an idea can each be conceived. Watch the small words around it: to have conceived of something is to have formed a picture of it, while conceived as says what a thing was imagined to be.
conceived is a form of conceive
conceive, verb: To develop and form an idea, plan, or design in the mind; to imagine it. Full entry
- Forms
- conceiveconceives he/she/itconceiving -ing formconceived past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- conceive → conceived: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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