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DREAMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Conceived of or imagined or hoped for
Example:
his dreamed symphony that would take the world of music by storm
Classified under:
Similar:
unreal (lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb dream
Context examples:
I had always been pretty sharp in the office, but I had never dreamed that I was talked about in the City in this fashion.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had never dreamed that his own kind consisted of more than One Eye, his mother, and himself.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
"I never dreamed of such a thing. What will Mother say? I wonder if her..." there Jo stopped and turned scarlet with a sudden thought.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It is unique. It is incredible. No one on earth has ever dreamed of such a possibility.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly—and woke up again, and here I were.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I understood that he had opened his campaign against Charles Augustus Milverton, but I little dreamed the strange shape which that campaign was destined to take.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Indian summer had dreamed on and on, and then, suddenly, with the sharpness of bugles, winter came.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Now and then, in passing a casement, you glanced out at the thick-falling snow; you listened to the sobbing wind, and again you paced gently on and dreamed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Not that I dreamed of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle me to frenzy: no, it was in my own person that I was once more tempted to trifle with my conscience; and it was as an ordinary secret sinner that I at last fell before the assaults of temptation.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He had never dreamed there was such a process.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
