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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To form a mental image of; envisage.
  • intransitive verb To engage in psychological visualization with regard to (pain or a body process, for example).
  • intransitive verb To render visible, as in an image or representation.
  • intransitive verb To produce an image or visual representation of (an internal body part or action, for example) by radiological or other technology.
  • intransitive verb To form a mental image.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hence, in literature, to make (a character) appear real by vividness and force of description.
  • To make visual or visible; make that which is perceived by the mind only visible to the eye; externalize to the eye.
  • To call up a mental image or picture with a distinctness approaching actual vision.
  • Also spelled visualise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To make visual, or visible.
  • transitive verb To see in the imagination; to form a mental image of.
  • intransitive verb To form a mental image of something not present before the eye at the time.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb American Alternative spelling of visualise.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb view the outline of by means of an X-ray
  • verb imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
  • verb make visible
  • verb form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract

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