phantasize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Example Sentences
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Dreamers were scoundrels or lunatics who sought to justify their unfitness for society by ridiculing it as unworthy and by phantasizing over new values and standards which would be more amiable to their weaknesses.
From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben
After one of those stormy scenes, Krespel had flown off to Angela's country house, and phantasizing on his Cremona, was forgetting the sorrows of the day.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
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