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fantasized

fantasized is the simple past and past participle of fantasize.

Meaning of fantasize

Verb

fantasize (third-person singular simple present fantasizes, present participle fantasizing, simple past and past participle fantasized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
    • I fantasized about my ideal date.
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive, transitive) To portray in the mind, using fantasy.
    • Not that Mom and I didn't have our "shared experiences" — it's just that I'd like to forget most of them. I'd rather fantasize us together in that little cafe.1984 August 11, Janice Irvine, “Secrets of Fear, Shame, and Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 9

Questions about fantasized

What is fantasized the simple past and past participle of?
Fantasized is the simple past and past participle of fantasize.

Words near fantasized in the dictionary

  1. fantasist
  2. fantasists
  3. fantasization
  4. fantasizations
  5. fantasize
  6. fantasized
  7. fantasizer
  8. fantasizers
  9. fantasizes
  10. fantasizing
  11. fantasizings

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