hallucinate
verb (used without object)
to see or hear things that do not exist outside the mind; have hallucinations.
had been hallucinating
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past perfect progressiveof hallucinate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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They quickly realised she needed to go to hospital and had been hallucinating.
From BBC ● May 18, 2023
I told people who wondered what had become of me just what had — that I was bipolar, had psychotic episodes and had been hallucinating.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2020
At another point, when the patient asked whether he had been hallucinating at the time of the alleged incident, Ahmed said, “No.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2016
Hallock said the man's relatives told authorities that he had been hallucinating at a party on Saturday evening and had made several "inappropriate" comments about zombies to a family member.
From Reuters ● Oct. 29, 2013
Some had been hallucinating, swallowing sand they thought was water.
From Time Magazine Archive
