Imagine
Imagine verb - To form a mental picture of.
To realize and imagine are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To realize" with "Imagine", this terms are similar.
To realize
Imagine and to realize are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Imagine" instead a verb phrase "To realize".
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Both terms in one sentence
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Souls would never do such a thing, and can't imagine themselves doing such a thing - thus refusing to realize the truth about what they have become.
Source: Literature / The Host - Captain Smek from Home thinks himself to be a competent leader but is in fact too stupid to realize he isn't as competent as he likes to imagine himself.
Source: Small Name Big Ego / Film - Imagine buying a new monitor in 1998, and going to bed, and then waking up at four in the morning to realize it is the monitor.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Other
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