visualizevi‧su‧al‧ize (also visualise British English) /ˈvɪʒuəlaɪz/ ●○○ AWL verb [transitive] 
Verb Table Examples
I tried to visualize the house while he was describing it.visualize somebody doing something Somehow I can’t visualize myself staying with this company for much longer.visualize how/what etc It’s hard to visualize how these tiles will look in our bathroom.► see thesaurus at imagine—visualization /ˌvɪʒuəlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ -lə-/ noun [uncountable]
Verb TableVERB TABLE
visualize
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | visualize |
| he, she, it | visualizes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | visualized |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have visualized |
| he, she, it | has visualized | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had visualized |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will visualize |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have visualized |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am visualizing |
| he, she, it | is visualizing | |
| you, we, they | are visualizing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was visualizing |
| you, we, they | were visualizing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been visualizing |
| he, she, it | has been visualizing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been visualizing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be visualizing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been visualizing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- An architect can look at a drawing and visualize a three-dimensional shape.
- David could still visualize Polly, even though he had not seen her for ten years.
- He closed his eyes, trying to visualize where he had put his watch.
- I tried to visualize the house as he described it.
- How dare I visualize myself like them?
- I could visualize him in one of Mr Wells's romantic fantasies.
- She visualized it as a movie.
- To write a scene is to visualize.
- While many still visualize cruises as sedentary, today they are far from that.
THESAURUS► imagine
Collocations to form a picture or idea in your mind about what something might be like: · When I think of Honolulu, I imagine long white beaches and palm trees.· I can’t really imagine being a millionaire.
► visualize to form a picture of someone or something in your mind, especially something that is definitely going to happen or exist in the future: · Anna visualized meeting Greg again at the airport.· The finished house may be hard to visualize.
► picture to form a clear picture of something or someone in your mind: · I can still picture my father, even though he died a long time ago.· The town was just how she had pictured it from his description.
► envisage especially British English, envision to imagine something as possible or likely to happen in the future: · How do you envisage your career developing over the next ten years?· They had envisioned the creation of a single armed force, small but efficient.
► conceive of something formal to imagine a situation, especially one that is difficult to imagine: · For many people, music is so important that they cannot conceive of life without it.
► fantasize to imagine something exciting that you would like to happen, but that is very unlikely to happen: · I used to fantasize about becoming a film star.
► daydream to imagine pleasant things, so that you forget where you are and what you should be doing: · Mark began to daydream, and didn’t even hear the teacher’s question.
► hallucinate to imagine that you are seeing things that are not really there, especially because you are ill or have taken drugs: · The drug can cause some people to hallucinate.· When I saw the walls moving, I thought I must be hallucinating.
Longman Language Activatorto have a picture or idea of something in your mind► imagine to think about something and form a picture or idea in your mind about it: · Try to imagine a room as big as a football field.imagine (that): · For a while she imagined that she was a rich woman, living in a beautiful house.imagine what/who/where: · From the description Janet gave in her letter it was easy to imagine what her new apartment was like.imagine doing something: · Just imagine having to spend the rest of your life in jail.imagine somebody doing something: · I can quite easily imagine you running your own business.can't imagine somebody doing something: · I can't imagine anyone wearing clothes that colour.
► visualize also visualise British to form a very clear picture of something or someone in your mind, especially in order to help you prepare to do something or help you to remember something clearly: · An architect can look at a drawing and visualize a three-dimensional shape.· David could still visualize Polly, even though he had not seen her for ten years.visualize where/what/how: · He closed his eyes, trying to visualize where he had put his watch.
► picture to have a clear picture of something or someone in your mind, especially because you are trying to imagine what it is like to do something or what someone looks like: · Can you picture it? Lying in the sun, sipping cocktails -- it would be paradise!picture something/somebody as: · I had never met Graham but I pictured him as a pale, thin young man wearing glasses.picture somebody doing something: · Miguel could still picture the children laughing and joking, and chasing each other around the garden.
► can see to have a clear picture of something you are thinking about in your mind, especially something pleasant or funny, or something you think is likely to happen: · I'm going to Corfu next week. I can see it all now -- sun, sand and sea!can see somebody doing something: · Jimmy's gone skiing for the first time. I can just see him coming home with a broken leg.
► form a picture to form an idea of something in your mind, using the information you have about it: · The Hubble Space Telescope allows astronomers to form a more accurate picture of our solar system.
► conceive of formal to imagine something happening or what a particular situation is like - use this especially in questions and negative statements: · It is difficult to conceive of a society in which nobody has to work.cannot conceive of something: · I don't know about you, but I cannot conceive of a home without electricity or water.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► try
to form a picture of someone or something in your mind SYN imagine: · It taxes the minds of determined embryologists to try and visualize what is going on.· These women are taking serious note of all those images and trying to visualize themselves in the fashion picture.· I try to visualize the balance of my own mind.· I trembled as I tried to visualize it.· He tried to visualize what he would have done with them.· He closed his eyes, trying to visualize where he had put it.· He tried to visualize its brown wooden bottom - he could not - there must still have been at least one sheet there.
I tried to visualize the house while he was describing it.visualize somebody doing something Somehow I can’t visualize myself staying with this company for much longer.visualize how/what etc It’s hard to visualize how these tiles will look in our bathroom.► see thesaurus at imagine—visualization /ˌvɪʒuəlaɪˈzeɪʃən $ -lə-/ noun [uncountable]