hallucinate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++hal·lu·ci·nate /həˈluːsəneɪt/ verb [intransitive] MPIMAGINEto see or hear things that are not really there 产生幻觉► see thesaurus at imagine→ See Verb table
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hallucinate• After two days without food and water, Voss began to hallucinate.• Miguel walked through it as if hallucinating.• Thought processes become distorted and you hallucinate.• While in his medicated, pain-saturated state, he begins to hallucinate.• She wasn't hallucinating any more, she knew.• After hallucinating from oxygen deprivation in the Himalayas, Haver vowed to ski the Seven Summits.• Sylvia had started to hallucinate, seeing creepy-crawlies on her bed, and the houseman had to come and sort her out.Origin hallucinate (1800-1900) Latin past participle of hallucinari “to dream”hal·lu·ci·nate verbChineseSyllable
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hallucinate
hal‧lu‧ci‧nate /həˈluːsəneɪt, həˈluːsɪneɪt/
verb [intransitive]
▪ imagine to form a picture or idea in your mind about what something might be like: When I think of Honolulu, I imagine long white beaches and palm trees. | I can’t really imagine being a millionaire.
▪visualize to form a picture of someone or something in your mind, especially something that is definitely going to happen or exist in the future: Anna visualized meeting Greg again at the airport. | The finished house may be hard to visualize.
▪picture to form a clear picture of something or someone in your mind: I can still picture my father, even though he died a long time ago. | The town was just how she had pictured it from his description.
▪envisage /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/ especially British English, envision to imagine something as possible or likely to happen in the future: How do you envisage your career developing over the next ten years? | They had envisioned the creation of a single armed force, small but efficient.
▪conceive of something formal to imagine a situation, especially one that is difficult to imagine: For many people, music is so important that they cannot conceive of life without it.
▪fantasize to imagine something exciting that you would like to happen, but that is very unlikely to happen: I used to fantasize about becoming a film star.
▪daydream to imagine pleasant things, so that you forget where you are and what you should be doing: Mark began to daydream, and didn’t even hear the teacher’s question.
▪hallucinate to imagine that you are seeing things that are not really there, especially because you are ill or have taken drugs: The drug that can cause some people to hallucinate. | When I saw the walls moving, I thought I must be hallucinating.
hal‧lu‧ci‧nate /həˈluːsəneɪt, həˈluːsɪneɪt/
verb [intransitive] Date: 1800-1900
Language: Latin
Origin: past participle of hallucinari 'to dream'
to see or hear things that are not really thereLanguage: Latin
Origin: past participle of hallucinari 'to dream'
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