Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To portray in the mind; imagine.
  • intransitive verb To indulge in fantasies.

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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 indulge in fantasies
  • verb portray in the mind

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Examples

  • I guess there aren't many other ways to put it, but "fantasize" just seems so strong.

    Advisor: Are you an Internet addict? - Boing Boing 2009

  • Call me crazy it's just that I still "fantasize" about being the quarterback, not the General Manager.

    Dave Hollander: Fantasy Football Surpasses All Previous Cringe Thresholds 2009

  • So, you know, at home, in the privacy of -- you know, in their living room they can turn that on and kind of fantasize and watch others dance.

    CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2005 2005

  • Professor Rose suggests that I "fantasize" Heisenberg's fear that he was in danger of his life from the Gestapo for talking to Bohr.

    Heisenberg in Copenhagen: An Exchange Bernstein, Jeremy 2001

  • These realities, at least to me, are some reasons why I can't "fantasize" some kind of "race play" where I'm in the subordinate position in an interracial relationship.

    BlogHer 2009

  • Once they do, you can research dating hot spots and "fantasize" about your "girlfriend" in "dreams" that generate

    PC World 2009

  • You go, you play around with people who are what you kind of fantasize about being, and you have a fine ol’ time jumping up and down on stage with your new pals.

    Curing Teh Gayz — In Just Three Weeks! « Whatever 2007

  • She's the woman that we all kind of fantasize about being on our most badass days. "

    LAist 2009

  • It is what tantric practitioners can only fantasize about, but it is not pornographic.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • If, like many Americans, you fantasize about living inside the July 2008 Pottery Barn catalog, this is your dream house.

    No Place for Holly Golightly Anne Kadet 2011

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