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fantasize

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fantasize may refer to: making a fantasy Fantasize (album) , a 2014 album by Kye Kye Fantasize , an album by Ponty Bone "Fantasize", a 2009 single by Jérémy Amelin "Fantasize", a song by The Specials from the 1998 album Guilty 'til Proved Innocent! "Fantasize", ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company" [syn: fantasise ] portray in the mind; "he is fantasizing the ideal wife" [syn: fantasise ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context intransitive usually with ''about'' 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 usually with ''about'' English) ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB about ▪ Which women do you fantasize about ? EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I often fantasize about living in a big house with tennis courts and a swimming pool. ▪ Many men fantasize about sleeping with someone who ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1926, from fantasy + -ize . Related: Fantasized ; fantasizing . An earlier verb was fantasticate (c.1600).

Usage examples of fantasize.

Rarely does it occur to Bev that she has no good reason to compete with a woman Jay fantasizes about chopping up and feeding to the alligators and crawfish in the bayou outside their door.

All the same, when Bev is out in the boat, she fantasizes about the Mississippi, about riverboat cruises and casinos, about fruity cocktails and beer in frozen glasses and maybe watching Mardi Gras from the window of a nice air-conditioned hotel.

This type of killer usually premeditates his crimes, often fantasizing and planning the murder in every aspect, with the possible exception of the specific victim.

There was a time when Donut had fantasized about being an actor his own self, but every mirror he looked into told him different, and eventually reality had beaten down those dreams.

He kissed her eyes, then, slowly, the rest of her face, tasting the faint trace of almond on her freckled cheeks, as he had once fantasized.

Standing in a kitchen fantasizing about a mind-reading gazillionaire with a sword?

Several rumors had circulated about him, his parents, and his house, but for the most part, Andrea had always fantasized that Kyre Osric was just a lonely rich man locked within a high tech jail.

It is possible for a pedophile to go through his whole life without molesting a child, even having a sexual relationship with an adult, satisfying his urges in other ways: fantasizing about children, masturbating with dolls, or perhaps picking an adult sexual partner who is childlike in some way.

He eyed the skyful of stars and fantasized about flying her somewhere deserted and making love out in the open.

Hence no empathy, no curiosity, none of the conversations I was able to fantasize on my own and which had no place in Britten Street.

When Ruth Anne begins to masturbate, in the bedroom she shares with her sister, she fantasizes people watching Daddy Glen beat her, creating a tortured connection between the violence done to her and the pleasure she wants to give herself.

Can it be that the role of purveyor of its fashionable products is playable also by a chimney sweep, a baker, a fantasizing child?

One school of thought claims a world of grass and insects, another fantasizes about one that rapidly repopulates itself as if the atomic holocaust had never burned across the sky.

They rigidified the codification of sex and gender, labeling those who dared to deviate from these codes or even fantasize about something different perverts and hysterics.

Her fantasized partners in this obscene intimacy are like succubae, renowned and feared as demonic beings that have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep.