fantasticize

verb2

1. •
   To make fantastic; to use the imagination to embellish.

   • By fantasticizing death we deny it once again. — 1979
2. •
   Synonym of fantasize.

   • The people of the town gave the matter a lot of thought, really "fantasticized" over it for a long time, and finally decided to open the cabaret on the right corner of the Promenade. — 1963