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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fantasise

artificial British English spelling of fantasize, not much attested before 1970s. For suffix, see -ize. Related: Fantasised; fantasising.

Wiktionary
fantasise

alt. 1 (context intransitive English) To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy. 2 (context transitive English) To portray in the mind, using fantasy. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy. 2 (context transitive English) To portray in the mind, using fantasy.

WordNet
fantasise
  1. v. indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company" [syn: fantasize]

  2. portray in the mind; "he is fantasizing the ideal wife" [syn: fantasize]

Usage examples of "fantasise".

Annette loved to hear about his travels and to fantasise a little about him, suspected Claudia, reluctantly replying.

She was a woman who liked the niceties of lovemaking, she did not fantasise about sex in dark alleyways or forbidden places where lovers might be discovered in embarrassingly compromising situations.

He likes to fantasise that the day will come when a girl throws open a window to reveal her nakedness to him.

Very often, the narcissist lies or fantasises in a manner very easy to discern.

He fantasises that everybody will fall asleep, leaving him nothing to do for the remainder of the day other than adjourning to the nearest pub.

His gaze drifts back to her thighs as he fantasises about her undressing at night.

He fantasises about continuing with the exhibition as though nothing had happened.

In idle moments he fantasises about what might have happened had he never taken her to his room, or if he had been living somewhere more to her liking.

Not that it was ordinary, of course, and not just because looking down at those fantasised eyes was almost as strange as looking up at them.

He had fantasised a thousand times about making love to her, breaking her, making her his.

She very rarely fantasised, these days, about Wimbarton falling for her for her looks and making her the new Milady, nor did she want it, under any circumstance.

Since his parents decided to separate, he has fantasised about living in a flatlet on his own.

Great-gran, why did a woman approach me today, the mother of one of the little girls at school, and suggest that my daughter was fantasising about her father being in the bath with her.

Could he possibly have been fantasising about her in just the way that she had about him, she wondered?

He enjoys fantasising in pubs. It is a pleasant and harmless pursuit which he should indulge in more often.