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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No ugly dream shall fright my mind, no ugly sight my eyes,
She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, “Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?” when suddenly, thump!
“Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!” said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, “It _was_ a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it’s getting late.” So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:—
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