envisage
verb (used with object)
to contemplate; visualize.
had envisaged
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past perfectof envisage.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Earlier Sunday, a joint statement from the foreign ministry and health ministry had envisaged just this possibility.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
Intelligence assessments suggest Russian forces are making slower progress than they had envisaged.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2022
Larne High School principal Stephen Reid told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that the current situation in Larne High School "isn't what we had envisaged" for the beginning of the new academic year.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2021
This is not the future as Inter had envisaged it.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
He recognized that my life was starting in earnest and would take a different course from the one he had envisaged and planned for.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
