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hallucinate
[ huh-loo-suh-neyt ]
verb (used without object)
- to see or hear things that do not exist outside the mind; have hallucinations:
People who ingested this fungus often hallucinated, seeing colored lights or hearing voices.
- Computers, Digital Technology. (of a machine learning program) to produce false information contrary to the intent of the user and present it as if true and factual.
verb (used with object)
- to see or hear (things that do not exist outside the mind); have hallucinations about:
In dramatic moments, the character hallucinates a very funny animated bear.
- Archaic. to affect with hallucinations.
hallucinate
/ həˈluːsɪˌneɪt /
verb
- intr to experience hallucinations
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Derived Forms
- halˈluciˌnator, noun
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Other Words From
- hal·lu·ci·na·tor noun
- non·hal·lu·ci·nat·ed adjective
- un·hal·lu·ci·nat·ed adjective
- un·hal·lu·ci·nat·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hallucinate1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hallucinate1
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Example Sentences
The episode then dives into A Christmas Carol territory as Oliver starts to hallucinate.
One night, while looking in the mirror he began to hallucinate that he could not see his flesh or his bones.
A placard that is to have effect at some distance must be in glaring colours; pathos calls for images that hallucinate.
I recognise no obligation to reason with such hallucinate mortals; I simply treat them with ridicule.
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