fantasize
verb (used without object)
to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed byabout ).
fantasise
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a variation of
fantasize.
Example Sentences
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Lying on a sunbed, it can be easy to fantasise about quitting everything and retraining as a scuba diver instructor or yoga teacher, but Carr warns against a "knee-jerk reaction".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
"Taking back cultural artefacts that were looted is actually something a lot of people hope for - and fantasise about," Ncube, who is from Zambia, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
While for a young couple in west Wales, they can only fantasise about buying a property of their own.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2021
It’s so easy for me to fantasise when I meet someone and immediately begin to picture the future.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2020
They fantasise, like the plutocrats in Ayn Rand’s terrible novel Atlas Shrugged, about further escape.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2019
