I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Almost anyone who has ever read a good book has daydreamed about writing his or her own best-seller.
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At school, he was always being told to 'stop daydreaming'.
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Blackthorne was sitting alone in a corner of the garden, daydreaming.
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Carol sat at her desk, daydreaming about meeting Mel Gibson.
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Colin began to daydream about what he would do if he won the lottery.
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Daniel was a quiet child who daydreamed in class.
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Many women daydream about having time to themselves.
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Mark had begun to daydream , and didn't even hear the teacher's question.
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When Charles tapped me on the shoulder I was daydreaming of golden beaches and palm trees.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As children, we learn that we shouldn't daydream .
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Irene daydreamed incessantly of hilly streets, cable cars, Chinatown and Rice-o-Roni.
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The old hands were less excited and settled down to daydream the time away until supper.
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These seem amazing facts in a country which daydreams about exporting its democracy.
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This is a wonderful place to daydream and dawdle.
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Those who have been daydreaming or carving their initials into the desktops sit up.
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You crumple the paper and begin daydreaming to ease the frustration.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I began to have daydreams about us being married.
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Ingrid was brought out of her daydream by a shout from her mother.
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Neil seemed lost in a daydream , and didn't hear what I said.
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She was sitting at the back of the class, lost in a daydream .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was a deliciously decadent daydream which stirred the blood, sending adrenalin pumping through his system.
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Jolted from his daydreams, Lucien had time only to feel a rush of air as Amber Epipheny swept past him.
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Something moved in the water and snapped me out of my daydream .
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There are also fantasies where there is no serious desire for fulfilment, as in the manner of daydreams.
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These stories and my daydreams underlined what was happening in Lobethal and elsewhere.
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When he came out, he thought, he would sit in the driver's seat and allow himself a daydream .