hallucinate
verb (used without object)
to see or hear things that do not exist outside the mind; have hallucinations.
was hallucinating
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past progressiveof hallucinate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He initially told the dispatcher he was being followed and made other statements that appeared to show he was hallucinating.
From BBC ● May 23, 2023
He took her to the ER, where he said she was hallucinating and feeling paranoid and saying things you don’t want to hear a 10-year-old say.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2021
The other night, I was hallucinating wind chimes in my pulse, my blood singing to me from inside my head, pushing along, and I thought: How much closer could anyone get to me?
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2020
Here he is paying homage to Cherry Jones in the 1995 Broadway revival of “The Heiress,” a rave so lush that Jones later told Playbill she thought she was hallucinating when she read it:
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2019
I’m still not entirely convinced that I was hallucinating the night the floor of my hospital room transformed into a carpet of writhing snakes.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
