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dream

 
 
/driːm/ verb (past tense and past participle dreamed, dreamt)

Definition

SLEEP [I, T] to experience events and images in your mind while you are sleeping: [+ (that)] Last night I dreamed that I was flying.
IMAGINE [I, T] to imagine something that you would like to happen: [+ of + doing sth] I dream of living on a desert island. [+ (that)] He never dreamed that one day he would become President.
wouldn't dream of doing sth used to say that you would not do something because you think it is wrong or silly
(Definition of dream verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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