Synonyms imagine
These words all mean to form an idea in your mind of what somebody/something might be like.
imagine to form an idea in your mind of what somebody/something might be like: The house was just as she had imagined it.
think to imagine something that might happen or might have happened: We couldn’t think where you’d gone.
Just think—this time tomorrow we’ll be lying on a beach.
see to consider something as a future possibility; to imagine somebody as something: I can’t see her changing her mind.
His colleagues see him as a future director.
envisage (especially British English) to imagine what will happen in the future: I don’t envisage working with him again.
The usual word for this in American English is envision (see below).
envision to imagine what a situation will be like in the future, especially a situation that you intend to work towards: They envision an equal society, free from poverty and disease.
Envision is used especially in business and political contexts. In North American English it is also used in the same way as envisage: I don’t envision working with him again.
Patterns
to imagine/see/envisage/envision somebody/something as something
to imagine/see/envisage/envision (somebody) doing something
to imagine/think/see/envisage/envision who/what/how…
to imagine/think/envisage/envision that…