refantasize

English

Etymology

re- +‎ fantasize

Verb

refantasize (third-person singular simple present refantasizes, present participle refantasizing, simple past and past participle refantasized)

1. (transitive) To fantasize again or anew.
   • 1986, Emilie Richards, Something So Right, →ISBN, page 231:

     "I'll have to refantasize where you got all this expertise," she said. "I had you pegged as the Romeo of some plush, private school."

   • 2015, Julia Marshall, David M. Donahue, Art-Centered Learning Across the Curriculum, →ISBN, page 94:

     Each photograph shows how modern-day Americans remember, memorialize, reinterpret, refantasize, and relive great historical events and idolize larger-than-life figures of American history.

   • 2015, Ian Almond, The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Islam, Empire and Loss, →ISBN, page 127:

     More than in any visible, explicit sense, the loss of these various places forced Chaudhuri to refabricate them, refantasize them, in their absence.