fantasticize

To make fantastic; to use the imagination to embellish.

By fantasticizing death we deny it once again.

The social and personal behaviour of Muslim men, women and societies as they are encountered in the West could very well be different from the way it is depicted in films or fantasticized in novels, and sometimes even in textbooks.

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.

He doesn't have any false pretensions, he's straightforward, no fantasticizing, but full of mood.