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

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

Money itself is just a construct, one with rules dreamt up by humans.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

Yusha's mother Yasin Akter says her child had once dreamt of becoming a dancer - an aspiration that has since faded.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

That night she dreamt she gave birth to a baby who gave birth to a baby and so on and so on until morning.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

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