hallucinate

verb

hal·lu·ci·nate hə-ˈlü-sə-ˌnāt How to pronounce hallucinate (audio)

hallucinated; hallucinating

transitive verb

: to affect with visions or imaginary perceptions

: to perceive or experience as a hallucination

intransitive verb

: to have hallucinations

hallucinator

hə-ˈlü-sə-ˌnā-tər How to pronounce hallucinate (audio)

noun

Example Sentences

The patient may hallucinate if she has a fever.

Recent Examples on the Web Overdosed on Benadryl while attempting to hallucinate Asphyxiated while attempting to pass out… Hell to Pray From a complaint filed against the City of Boston in January by the Satanic Temple.

Aaron Fagan, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 The social media platform has influenced stunts involving face wax challenges (yes), eating corn on the cob, to a spinning power drill (yes) and taking enough Benadryl to hallucinate (yes).

oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2021 In a spoof of the vampire hysteria that swept over Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Palma’s characters hallucinate bloodsuckers running amok in the Italian countryside.

Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021 Maki continues to hallucinate and babble about his favorite football players, or a scene from a Batman movie, said Reed, his father.

Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2021 But the Benadryl challenge, which emerged in 2020, encouraged people to take an excessive amount of the medication in an attempt to hallucinate.

Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2021 Drugs like 'shrooms don’t just make people hallucinate.

Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2020 People who hallucinate are said to see _____ elephants; 21.

Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020 The Benadryl Challenge is allegedly making the rounds on TikTok, encouraging social media users to overdose on the over-the-counter drug in order to hallucinate.

Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 9 Sep. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Latin hallucinatus, past participle of hallucinari, allucinari to prate, dream, modification of Greek alyein to be distressed, to wander

First Known Use

circa 1834, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

单词	hallucinating
释义	hallucinate verb hal·lu·ci·nate hə-ˈlü-sə-ˌnāt hallucinated; hallucinating transitive verb 1 : to affect with visions or imaginary perceptions 2 : to perceive or experience as a hallucination intransitive verb : to have hallucinations hallucinator hə-ˈlü-sə-ˌnā-tər noun Example Sentences The patient may hallucinate if she has a fever. Recent Examples on the Web Overdosed on Benadryl while attempting to hallucinate Asphyxiated while attempting to pass out… Hell to Pray From a complaint filed against the City of Boston in January by the Satanic Temple. Aaron Fagan, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 The social media platform has influenced stunts involving face wax challenges (yes), eating corn on the cob, to a spinning power drill (yes) and taking enough Benadryl to hallucinate (yes). oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2021 In a spoof of the vampire hysteria that swept over Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Palma’s characters hallucinate bloodsuckers running amok in the Italian countryside. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021 Maki continues to hallucinate and babble about his favorite football players, or a scene from a Batman movie, said Reed, his father. Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2021 But the Benadryl challenge, which emerged in 2020, encouraged people to take an excessive amount of the medication in an attempt to hallucinate. Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2021 Drugs like 'shrooms don’t just make people hallucinate. Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2020 People who hallucinate are said to see _____ elephants; 21. Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020 The Benadryl Challenge is allegedly making the rounds on TikTok, encouraging social media users to overdose on the over-the-counter drug in order to hallucinate. Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 9 Sep. 2020 See More Word History Etymology Latin hallucinatus, past participle of hallucinari, allucinari to prate, dream, modification of Greek alyein to be distressed, to wander First Known Use circa 1834, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1 Medical Definition hallucinate verb hal·lu·ci·nate hə-ˈlüs-ᵊn-ˌāt hallucinated; hallucinating transitive verb 1 : to affect with visions or imaginary perceptions the patient is not hallucinated 2 : to perceive or experience as a hallucination may hallucinate monsters or attackers M. J. Horowitz intransitive verb : to have hallucinations hallucinating verb present participle of hallucinate as in dreaming to see or sense something or someone that is not really there; to have hallucinations The patient may hallucinate if she has a fever. Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance dreaming seeing imagining daydreaming fantasizing contemplating fantasying envisioning pondering visualizing stargazing envisaging fancying picturing reliving reflecting visioning conceiving reminiscing ruminating recreating meditating imaging ideating musing conceiting featuring planning concocting re-creating projecting inventing manufacturing foreseeing conjuring (up) fabricating making up prefiguring
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hallucinate

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Example Sentences

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