Build and Imagine

Build

Build verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.

Usage example: he spent hours building a model airplane from a kit

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Imagine and build are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Imagine" instead a verb "Build".

Nearby Words: built, building, buildup, builder

Imagine verb - To form a mental picture of.

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Build and imagine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Build" instead a verb "Imagine".

character	build character	imagine character
power	build power	imagine power
life	build life	imagine life
future	build future	imagine future
Other words: characters, world, city.

It's not so much that they are unadvanced as that they are so erratic that it is hard to imagine them actually having time to build starships before they are wrecked by the next civil war.

Source: Insufficiently Advanced Alien
Can you imagine exactly how much it would cost to build not one but two moon-sized, hyperspace capable battle stations?

Source: Arbitrarily Large Bank Account
It's hard to imagine that he couldn't build a remote controlled bomb either, considering how he has a remote control airship.

Source: Video Game / Final Fantasy IV

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Imagine and Build. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/imagine

Build & Imagine. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/imagine>.

Imagine or Build. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/build/imagine.

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