imagine

verb

• 1form a mental image or concept of:she imagined him at his desk, his head in his hands [with clause]:I couldn’t imagine what she expected to tell them
• believe (something unreal or untrue) to exist or be so:she was overtired and imagining things (as adjective imagined)they suffered from ill health, real or imagined, throughout their lives

• 2 [with clause] suppose or assume:after Ned died, everyone imagined that Mabel would move away