Imagine and Put up

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Imagine verb - To form a mental picture of.

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Put up and imagine are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Put up" instead a verb "Imagine".

Put up verb - To form by putting together parts or materials.

Usage example: plans to put up a pavilion in the public gardens

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Imagine and put up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Imagine" instead a verb "Put up".

You wouldn't imagine that Glass Joe, the shining example of a Warm-Up Boss, could ever put up a fight.

Source: Not-So-Harmless Villain
Imagine Spot: Happens all the time, but in one memorable series of strips, we see what it'd have been like if Jason and Marcus had been cast as Frodo and Sam in the The Lord of the Rings movies, with Peter Jackson having to put up with their uber-geekiness.

Source: Comic Strip / FoxTrot
An example from the latter: "She was gorgeous, she was charming/Yeah, she was perfect in every way/Except she was always using the word "infer"/When she obviously meant "imply"/And I know some guys would put up with that kind of thing/But frankly, I can't imagine why." He's got a point.

Source: Law of Disproportionate Response

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