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to hallucinate

to hallucinate

75 7.4
To see or hear things that are not there
  • verb
  • /həˈluːsɪˌneɪt/
translation icon : alucinar
  • I walked the nearby hills, hallucinating mildly and trying to think things through about Twyla.
  • hallucinate voices
  • hallucinating patients
  • hallucinating schizophrenic patients

So I was smoking then a lot of weed as well, you know, and I started to hallucinate a lot.

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Examples

  • Moon Knight, he hallucinates and thinks that he's speaking to an Egyptian moon God.

  • One of the nurses said she's been hallucinating, so I definitely want to keep her here for at least a couple of days.

    Poison Ivy (1992)

  • Or perhaps he was beginning, while awake, to hallucinate the same images that troubled his sleep.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • What can you do for someone in his condition, hallucinating? ... or whatever it is?

    Fiction book (1996)

  • I think I was hallucinating.

    Mandao Returns (2020)

  • When you opened the door... ...I thought I was hallucinating.

    The Pelican Brief (1993)

  • Our brain decides to start hallucinating while we sleep.

    Dream Scenario (2023)

  • As the frustrated father's weakened state causes him to hallucinate, he pictures past childhood scenes with his daughters:

    Academic text (1993)

  • When they reached the silent waiting area, he dropped his suitcases, convinced he was hallucinating.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • After taking the medication, I started to hallucinate, believing I saw small animals in the corner of the room.

Synonyms

hallucinating
vsto hallucinate
7.7

Seeing or hearing things that are not real

is the base verb form rather than the -ing participle
to trippin'
vsto hallucinate
  • NSFW
9.9

To see or hear things that are not real, often because of drugs

is more general and covers medical medication or other causes

How Vivid

to hallucinate
75 7.4
to imagine
∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

hallucinate infinitive
hallucinated past
hallucinated past participle
hallucinating present participle
hallucinates third person singular

Morphology

hallucinate = hallucin (opaque) = hallucin + ate

There is no recognizable English base word for 'hallucin', making the derivation opaque to learners.

Etymology

Hallucinate comes from the old Latin word hallucinari, which meant 'to wander in the mind' or 'to dream'. So to hallucinate today is like your mind 'walking away' from reality and making you see or hear things that are not really there.