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| VERB: | 1. To participate in or partake of personally: experience, feel, go through, have, know, meet1 (with), suffer, taste (of), undergo. Archaic : prove. Idioms: run up against. See PARTICIPATE. 2. To know in advance: anticipate, divine, envision, foreknow, foresee. See FORESIGHT, SEE. 3. To form mental images of: conceive, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, image, imagine, picture, think, vision, visualize. Informal : feature. See THOUGHTS. 4. To perceive with a special effort of the senses or the mind: descry, detect, discern, distinguish, mark, mind, note, notice, observe, remark. See KNOWLEDGE, SEE. 5. To look upon in a particular way: account, consider, deem, esteem, reckon, regard, view. See PERSPECTIVE. 6. To apprehend (images) by use of the eyes: behold, perceive. Scots : ken. See SEE. 7. To be with another person socially on a regular basis: date, go out. Informal : take out. See CONNECT. 8. To perceive and recognize the meaning of: accept, apprehend, catch (on), compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, get, grasp, make out, read, sense, take, take in, understand. Informal : savvy. Slang : dig. Chiefly British : twig. Scots : ken. Idioms: get (or have) a handle on, get the picture. See UNDERSTAND. 9. To go to or seek out the company of in order to socialize: call, come by, come over, drop by, drop in, look in, look up, pop in, run in, stop (by or in), visit. Idioms: pay a visit. See SEEK. | | PHRASAL VERB: | see to To have the care and supervision of: attend, care for, look after, mind, minister to, tend2, watch. Idioms: keep an eye on, look out for, take care (or charge) of, take under one's wing. See CARE FOR.
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