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fantasizing

VERB

dream about desires

Synonyms

STRONGEST

daydream hallucinate

STRONG

envision imagine invent moon romance woolgather

WEAK

build castles in air head trip live in a dream world trip out

Example Sentences

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While starving and battling lice, the young women distracted themselves by fantasizing about food.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

The narrator begins fantasizing about Sheila’s handsome Vietnamese vet — so vividly that he appears in her kitchen one day.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

I haven’t had that sandwich in more than a decade, but just writing about it now, I’m absolutely fantasizing.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025

But this wasn’t merely a spectacle of a man engaged in otherworldly fantasizing.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2025

It was just his mind playing tricks, fantasizing that the liquid all around was actually water.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi