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visualize

 verb
     
vi‧su‧al‧ize also visualise British English [transitive]
to form a picture of someone or something in your mind [= imagine]:
I tried to visualize the house while he was describing it.
visualize somebody doing something
Somehow I can't visualize myself staying with this company for much longer.
visualize how/what etc
It's hard to visualize how these tiles will look in our bathroom.
—visualization noun [uncountable]
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