dreamt

[dremt] / drɛmt /

VERB

conjure up scenario

Synonyms

STRONGEST

conceive crave daydream fantasize invent think visualize

STRONG

brainstorm concoct create devise envisage fancy formulate hallucinate hanker hatch hunger idealize imagine long lust picture pine sigh stargaze sublimate thirst

WEAK

be delirious be moonstruck be up in clouds build castles in air cook up have a flash have a nightmare have a notion have a vision make up search for pot of gold think up

Antonyms

STRONG

despise dislike hate

Example Sentences

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dreamt

We are introduced to mortgage-backed securities and to the people who dreamt them up and abused them, antiheroes of the 2007-09 debt debacle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Tilbrook: Paul sang it in a way that I could never have dreamt of singing it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Ever since he was a young boy and his father relocated to the USA, Godwin Forde had dreamt of living there too.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

From a modest family, he dreamt of becoming a computer engineer to "change his life", he told AFP, withholding his surname because "the fear is still there".

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Day and night they heard the muffled thud of the picks above and dreamt of the collapse of the grotto and of every ghastly eventuality.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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