dream
/dɹim/ verb A2- To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping. · Although people primarily dream during the REM phase of sleeping, they can dream during non-REM sleep as well.
- To hope, to wish. · Lucy dreams of becoming a scientist when she grows up.
- To daydream. · Stop dreaming and get back to work.
- To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep). · I dreamed a vivid dream last night.
- To consider the possibility (of). · I wouldn't dream of snubbing you in public.
He/she/it dreams · Past dreamed · Past participle dreamed · -ing form dreaming
Verb forms
- Base form
- dream
- He/she/it
- dreams
- Past
- dreamed
- Past participle
- dreamed
- -ing form
- dreaming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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It was all like some dreadful dream.”
“They won’t dream of encoring me,” scoffed Anne, who was not without her own secret hopes that they would, and already visioned herself telling Matthew all about it at the next morning’s breakfast table.
Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantès, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
No ugly dream shall fright my mind, no ugly sight my eyes,
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