Crossword clues for dreamt
dreamt
- Like nightmares
- Saw things in the dark?
- Had night visions
- Had a nightmare
- Emulated Alice
- What Dorothy did, for most of the "Wizard of Oz" movie
- Saw things in the night?
- Saw things at night?
- Pictured in bed?
- Like season 8 of "Dallas"
- Like (spoiler alert) the entire "Newhart" series
- Had sleeping visions
- Had nightmares
- Had a night vision
- First verb in "Rebecca"
- Envisioned, in a way
- Emulated a King?
- Conceived, with "up"
- "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are ___ of in your philosophy"
- Fantasized
- Imagined while sleeping
- Unreal
- Had visions during sleep
- Cooked (up)
- Did some woolgathering
- Imaginary
- Thought (up)
- Conceptualized
- "I ___ that I dwelt . . . ": Bunn
- " . . . ___ of in your philosophy": Shak.
- What Abou Ben Adhem did
- Had a reverie
- Opening of market in free trade had a vision
- Had aspirations
- Used one's imagination
- Devised, with "up"
- Conjured (up)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dream \Dream\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dreamed (dr[=e]md) or Dreamt (dr[e^]mt); p. pr. & vb. n. Dreaming.] [Cf. AS. dr[=e]man, dr[=y]man, to rejoice. See Dream, n.]
To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend.
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To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
Here may we sit and dream Over the heavenly theme.
--Keble.They dream on in a constant course of reading, but not digesting.
--Locke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alternative past tense and past participle of dream (v.).
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dreaming]
a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" [syn: ambition, aspiration]
imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dreaming]
a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" [syn: pipe dream]
a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"
someone of something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"
[also: dreamt]
v. have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: daydream, woolgather, stargaze]
experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"
[also: dreamt]
See dream
Usage examples of "dreamt".
Then dreamt I was skewered by a man in bare feet, while that thing kept on chiming.
Then I said good-night and turned in, and dreamt about poor long-dead Silvestre and the diamonds.
But for a long time I dreamt on, till my eyes fell on the instruments hanging on the partition.
Before I made this mad experiment I had dreamt of a thousand advantages.
I rubbed my eyes, doubting whether we had not slept and dreamt these things by reason of the fungus we had eaten, and suddenly discovered the blood upon my face, and then that my shirt was sticking painfully to my shoulder and arm.
Afterwards, when fever had hold of me, I dreamt again and again of that bitter, furious creature rising so vigorous and active out of the unknown sea.
Many nights I dreamt about doing multiple pirouettes and the feeling was incredibly exhilarating.
He immediately fell asleep and dreamt that he had won the competition and that he would live a wealthy and happy life with many wives, concubines and children.
When he woke up from his dream he 185 believed this was his fate, until he glanced at the millet soup cooking in the wok, and realised that he was in truth just an ordinary man and the things he had dreamt were too good to be true.
I was meeting people and experiencing things that I had only dreamt about in China.
The brilliance that spilled from the house did not resemble anything he had witnessed or dreamt of before.
He dreamt of the pigeons too, several times a night, and on more than one occasion he woke certain that 33 and his mate had spoken to him, in their bird way, though he could make no sense of their advice.
Immacolata had dreamt of it often, and spoken of the wilderness where it resided.
Home for Tosev 3 in the conquest fleet had dreamt the Big Uglies would be able to put up a hundredth of the fight they had.
Wagner never dreamt of shareholders, tall hats, whitelead factories, and industrial and political questions looked at from the socialistic and humanitarian points of view.