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  • verb intransitive To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
  • verb transitive To portray in the mind, using fantasy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb portray in the mind
  • verb indulge in fantasies

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Examples

  • But he added that some female students still "fantasise" about lecturers.

    unknown title 2009

  • I was on the knife-edge between 'struggling writer' and 'failed writer', doomed to live a life where I could only fantasise about seeing my book on shelves up and down the country.

    Ben Wakeling: Just a Face in the Crowd Ben Wakeling 2011

  • Even in more mundane circumstances, we can think quite honestly that we are under no obligation not to fantasise.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Even in more mundane circumstances, we can think quite honestly that we are under no obligation not to fantasise.

    On Sophistry and Subjectivity Hal Duncan 2009

  • "As much as Sheen has lived a life most Chinese men can only fantasise about, our admiration of him can only go so far," says Beijing's Global Times.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • Because let's face it, writers are only people, and they write about the things they know and the things they fantasise about.

    weekly nathreee 2009

  • "It is evidently pleasing to many people," the demographer J Richard Udry observed dryly in a 1970 paper comprehensively disproving the theory, "to fantasise that when people are trapped by some immobilising event which deprives them of their usual activities, most will turn to copulation".

    Sex, lies and natural disasters 2012

  • I was on the knife-edge between 'struggling writer' and 'failed writer', doomed to live a life where I could only fantasise about seeing my book on shelves up and down the country.

    Ben Wakeling: Just a Face in the Crowd Ben Wakeling 2011

  • The only time I fantasise about stuff like that, is when I pair them up with ME!!

    icon meme nathreee 2010

  • Tracy Quan, author of Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl, and a member of Prostitutes of New York, said: People outside the industry fantasise about prostitution, and their fantasy includes freedom from normal responsibilities.

    Nevada’s Failed $5 Tax on Prostitution « Bound, Not Gagged 2009

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