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  • 41dream — index end (intent), objective, phantom, reflect (ponder) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 42dream up — index conceive (invent), conjure, invent (produce for the first time) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 43dream of — dream about, fantasize about; imagine …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 44dream up — (something) to invent or imagine something. She s dreamed up a great new way to waste time. The Gerbils is an odd name for a baseball team who dreamed it up? Related vocabulary: think up something …

    New idioms dictionary

  • 45dream — n *fancy, fantasy, phantasy, phantasm, vision, daydream, nightmare Analogous words: *delusion, illusion, hallucination …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 46dream — For the past tense and past participle dreamt and dreamed are both used: dreamed is pronounced dreemd (and occasionally dremt) and dreamt is pronounced dremt. Dreamt is used in both BrE and AmE, and dreamed tends to be used more for emphasis and… …

    Modern English usage

  • 47dream up — [v] concoct plan contrive, cook up*, create, devise, frame, hatch*, imagine, invent, make up, spin*, think up; concepts 17,36 …

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  • 48dream|er — «DREE muhr», noun. 1. a person who dreams: »We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams (Arthur O Shaughnessy). 2. Figurative. a person who does not fit his ideas to real conditions; an impractical person; visionary: »a dreamer,… …

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  • 49Dream — For other uses, see Dream (disambiguation). The Knight s Dream , 1655, by Antonio de Pereda Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep …

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  • 50dream — dreamful, adj. dreamfully, adv. dreamfulness, n. dreamingly, adv. dreamlike, adj. /dreem/, n., v., dreamed or dreamt, dreaming, adj. n. 1. a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep. 2. the sleeping state… …

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