hallucinate
verb /həˈluːsɪneɪt/
/həˈluːsɪneɪt/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they hallucinate | /həˈluːsɪneɪt/ /həˈluːsɪneɪt/ |
| he / she / it hallucinates | /həˈluːsɪneɪts/ /həˈluːsɪneɪts/ |
| past simple hallucinated | /həˈluːsɪneɪtɪd/ /həˈluːsɪneɪtɪd/ |
| past participle hallucinated | /həˈluːsɪneɪtɪd/ /həˈluːsɪneɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form hallucinating | /həˈluːsɪneɪtɪŋ/ /həˈluːsɪneɪtɪŋ/ |
- to see or hear things that are not really there because of illness or drugs
- She began hallucinating and having fits.
- hallucinate something Heathcliff starts hallucinating Cathy's image everywhere.
- hallucinate that… He hallucinated that agents were trying to poison him.
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Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘be deceived, have illusions’): from Latin hallucinat- ‘gone astray in thought’, from the verb hallucinari, from Greek alussein ‘be uneasy or distraught’.