fantasticise

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A form of fantasticize — To make fantastic; to use the imagination to embellish.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verbfantasticise (third-person singular simple present fantasticises, present participle fantasticising, simple past and past participle fantasticised)

present singular third person fantasticises · participle present fantasticising · participle past fantasticised · past fantasticised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of fantasticize.

    But languish not to alter, Where to fantasticise would be to falter, To falter weakly, unachieving change.

    2017, Mark Steven, Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism
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    Yes, this massive, spectacled Cockney dreamer is doing marvellous things these days — he is fantasticising the familiar, making us see our old town radiant in a new and odd light. Orthodoxy abounds in some graver Chestertonisms.

    1908, The Bystander: An Illustrated Weekly, Devoted to Travel, page 713

    In any case the resemblance between these two beings who fantasticise the world, comes in the first place from that same attitude of mind which makes a man love to debase himself, as well as from the identical conception they had of their art.

    1918, G. Turquet-Milnes, Some Modern Belgian Writers: A Critical Study, page 105
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