fantasize
verb (used without object)
to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed byabout ).
have fantasized
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present perfectof fantasize.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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And Paul believes that he may have fantasized about this.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2023
Salonen is not the first to have fantasized this Bach prelude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
Many people have fantasized about evacuating their lives during especially hard periods, but Moshfegh’s heroine is bold enough to actually try to pull it off.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2018
“I want this to go on forever,” says Jane Sanders, who must surely have fantasized about life in the White House.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2016
Jennifer, in one of the play’s rare moments of poignancy, thinks wistfully of “all the men who have fantasized about me” and wonders if they’re “all lonely, too.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2014
