fantasize

POS

Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)

HYPHEN

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb fantasize has 2 senses

fantasize(v = verb.creation) fantasise, fantasy - indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company"

is one way to conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine

Derived forms noun fantasy₁, noun fantasy₃

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

fantasize(v = verb.creation) fantasise - portray in the mind; "he is fantasizing the ideal wife"

is one way to conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

fantasize, v. (also phantasize, -ise)
1 intr. have a fantasy or fanciful vision.
2 tr. imagine; create a fantasy about.

Derivative

fantasist n.

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THESAURUS

fantasize

coin, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, cook up, counterfeit, create, dream, dream up, envisage, envision, experience imaginatively, fabricate, fake, fancy, fictionalize, forge, fudge, hallucinate, hatch, hoke up, ideate, imagine, invent, make up, manufacture, mold, mull over, muse, originate, produce, shape, speculate, suppose, think up, trump up

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