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(n)
(countable) Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
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(v)
(intransitive) To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
Dated form of fantasize. [(intransitive) To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.]
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
To convert into an object of the imagination; to fantasize about.
Synonym of fantasize.
(transitive) To fantasize again or anew.
Alternative form of fantasticize. [To make fantastic; to use the imagination to embellish.]
(transitive) To regard something as ideal.
(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
(idiomatic, childish) To pretend or imagine.
(transitive) To interpret, view, or portray something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner.
(transitive) To make fantastical.
(transitive) To sleep on (something); to consider (something) by dreaming about it.
The imagination.
(transitive) To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.
(transitive) To make fancy.
To fictionalize.
(specifically) A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.
(transitive) To make the subject of (often sexual) obsession.
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of idealize. [(transitive) To regard something as ideal.]
(intransitive) To not reside on the premises of one's employer (used especially of domestic staff such as nannies, cooks, maids, etc.)
Obsolete form of imagine. [(transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.]
(uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
To compose or relate fables or fictions; to give a false account of.
(obsolete, intransitive) To have a reverie; to daydream.
To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
(British spelling) To fictionalize.
(intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
(intransitive) To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
Alternative form of fabulize. [To compose or relate fables or fictions; to give a false account of.]
To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
(transitive) To make utopian or ideal.
(intransitive) To enjoy luxury, to indulge.
(intransitive, often followed by "in"): To yield to a temptation or desire.
(transitive) To make mythical.
Alternative form of utopianize. [(transitive) To make utopian or ideal.]
(transitive) To surpass in imagining.
The act or practice of roleplaying; an instance of roleplaying.
(transitive) To evoke.
(intransitive) To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
(transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
To design a new process or mechanism.
(transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
(transitive) To make magical.
(slang) penis
Dated form of fetishize. [(transitive) To make the subject of (often sexual) obsession.]
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
(transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
(intransitive) To behave in a pragmatic manner; to focus on the material or practical rather than abstractions.
(intransitive) To revel in nostalgia.
(slang, transitive) To fancy; to be romantically or sexually attracted to.
A graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
(idiomatic) To create in one’s mind; to invent.
(transitive) To treat in a figurative manner.
Non-Oxford British spelling of visualize.
A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
(transitive) To dream about; bestow with dreams or impart dreams unto.
A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
(grammar, transitive) To convert to a subjunctive form.
(transitive) To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about.
(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
(transitive) To make (something banal) seem to be exotic.
(transitive) Synonym of mysticize.
(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
(transitive) To make into a myth.
(dated, transitive) To turn (a story, idea etc.) into a scenario for a play or film.
Alternative form of mythicize. [(transitive) To make into a myth.]
(transitive) To create or produce something, seemingly magically.
(heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
(transitive) To consider as a course of action.
(transitive) To explicitly mention (something) as a possibility for consideration, often to recommend it.
(reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
(transitive) To bring into the future or make state of the art; modernize.
(idiomatic) To dwell on and ruminate about past events.
(intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
Synonym of theoretize (“form a theoretical model of”).
(obsolete) apparatus
To look at the stars at night.
(intransitive, figuratively) To engage in pretence or insincere behavior, often in order to mislead someone or gain an advantage.
(archaic) The act or result of depicturing something or someone.
(transitive, chiefly archaic) To bring to perfection; to perfect.
(transitive) To represent (someone or something) in a particular style.
Obsolete form of romaunt. [(archaic) A romantic story told in verse; a romance.]
(intransitive) To put on special or fancy clothes.
Pronunciation spelling of speculate. [(obsolete, intransitive) To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.]
(psychology) To understand the behavior of others as a product of their mental state
A surname.
(transitive) To surpass in pretending.
(transitive) To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).