Experience
Experience verb - To come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it.
Imagine and experience are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Imagine" instead a verb "Experience".
Imagine
Imagine verb - To form a mental picture of.
Experience and imagine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Experience" instead a verb "Imagine".
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Imagine that you've just gone through the worst, most traumatic experience of your life, and before you've finished dealing with that trauma, somebody comes up to you and congratulates you on it.
Source: A Real Man Is a Killer -
Imagine that you've just gone through the worst, most traumatic experience of your life, and before you've finished dealing with that trauma somebody comes up to you and congratulates you on it.
Source: Creator / Kurt Vonnegut - It's never quite clear whether this is actually so or whether the crews simply imagine their aircraft talks to them but the belief and experience are pervasive.
Source: Literature / The Big One
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Imagine and Experience. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/experience/imagine
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Imagine or Experience. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/experience/imagine.
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