hallucinate
verb (used without object)
to see or hear things that do not exist outside the mind; have hallucinations.
is hallucinating
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present progressiveof hallucinate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Meakins and Allen keep the audience guessing as to whether Kayla is hallucinating the grotesque scenarios the game keeps throwing at her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
And when the possibility that Man 1 is hallucinating is floated, it feels perfunctory.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2022
When Sherlock is hallucinating in “The Abominable Bride,” an imagined Moriarty calls himself the virus in the hard drive that is Sherlock’s mind.
From Time ● Dec. 25, 2016
‘My mother is hallucinating and seeing dead people. Do something about it!’
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2016
We talk for a bit and he relaxes and realizes he is hallucinating but as I leave I hear him say loudly again, “Get out of the sled.…”
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
