Definitions
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- verb intransitive To indulge in
fantasy ; toimagine things only possible in fantasy. - verb transitive To
portray in themind , 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
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But he added that some female students still "fantasise" about lecturers.
unknown title 2009
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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"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".
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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
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The only time I fantasise about stuff like that, is when I pair them up with ME!!
icon meme nathreee 2010
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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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