Fantasticize

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

To make fantastic; to use the imagination to embellish..

Definitions by Sense

1. To make fantastic; to use the imagination to embellish.
2. Synonym of fantasize.

Example Sentences

By fantasticizing death we deny it once again.

The social and personal behaviour of Muslim men, women and societies as they are encountered in the West could very well be different from the way it is depicted in films or fantasticized in novels, and sometimes even in textbooks.

In performing this fantasticizing operation on language, embroiderers, like calligraphers, must keep in mind that their work is conducted in the liminal region between the sacred and profane.

History itself is fantasticized, or it could be said that it is somehow contaminated by its adhesive contact with fantastic.

The people of the town gave the matter a lot of thought, really "fantasticized" over it for a long time, and finally decided to open the cabaret on the right corner of the Promenade.

He doesn't have any false pretensions, he's straightforward, no fantasticizing, but full of mood.

She put her hand to her forehead to see if she'd come down with fever. That night, until she fell asleep, she fantasticized, fantasticized: for how many minutes?

And one can substantiate fictions in this sense, just as one can fictionalize or fantasticize facts and things, and for all kinds of different purposes, and at different levels of aetherial abstraction.

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Word Forms

• fantasticizes
• fantasticizing
• fantasticized
• fantasticise

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