Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense hallucinates, present participle hallucinating, past tense, past participle hallucinated
verb
If you hallucinate, you see things that are not really there, either because you are ill or because you have taken a drug.
Hunger made him hallucinate. [VERB]
If you stared long enough, you could even begin to hallucinate the appearance ofislands. [VERB noun]
[Also VERB that]
Synonyms: imagine, trip [informal], envision, daydream More Synonyms of hallucinate
hallucinate in British English
(həˈluːsɪˌneɪt)
verb
(intransitive)
to experience hallucinations
Derived forms
hallucinator (halˈluciˌnator)
noun
Word origin
C17: from Latin ālūcinārī to wander in mind; compare Greek aluein to be distraught
hallucinate in American English
(həˈlusɪˌneɪt)
verb transitiveWord forms: halˈluciˌnated or halˈluciˌnating
1.
to cause to have hallucinations
2. US
to perceive in a hallucination
verb intransitive
3.
to have hallucinations
Word origin
< L hallucinatus, pp. of hallucinari, to wander mentally, rave < Gr alyein, to be confused (+ ending after L vaticinari, to prophesy) < IE base *al-, to wander, be confused > L ambulare
Examples of 'hallucinate' in a sentence
hallucinate
His mind was too exhausted to hallucinate; just as his limbs were too weary to bear him up.
Clive Barker GALILEE (2001)
Two, it wasn't migraine after all: you might hallucinate, but not about real things, real people.
Stewart, Michael GRACE (2001)
Her fever must be higher than she realized for her to hallucinate this way.
Debbie Macomber ANGELS EVERYWHERE (2001)
In other languages
hallucinate
British English: hallucinate VERB
If you hallucinate, you see things that are not really there, either because you are ill or because you have taken a drug.
Hunger made him hallucinate.
American English: hallucinate
Brazilian Portuguese: alucinar
Chinese: 产生幻觉
European Spanish: alucinar
French: avoir des hallucinations
German: halluzinieren
Italian: avere allucinazioni
Japanese: 幻覚を感じる
Korean: 환각에 빠지다
European Portuguese: alucinar
Latin American Spanish: alucinar
(verb)
Definition
to seem to see something that is not really there
Miguel stared at him, as if he were hallucinating.
Synonyms
imagine
Looking back, I think I must have imagined the whole thing.