hallucinate
verb🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪt/
🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪt/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they hallucinate | 🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪt/ 🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪt/ |
| he / she / it hallucinates | 🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪts/ 🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪts/ |
| past simple hallucinated | 🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪtɪd/ 🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪtɪd/ |
| past participle hallucinated | 🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪtɪd/ 🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form hallucinating | 🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/həˈluːsɪneɪtɪŋ/ |
to see or hear things that are not really there because of illness or drugs （由于生病、吸毒）幻视，幻听，产生幻觉 She began hallucinating and having fits. 她开始产生幻觉并变得健康。 - hallucinate something
Heathcliff starts hallucinating Cathy's image everywhere. 希斯克里夫（Heathcliff）开始到处迷幻凯茜的形象。 - hallucinate that…
He hallucinated that agents were trying to poison him. 他幻想着特工试图毒死他。
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘be deceived, have illusions’): from Latin hallucinat- ‘gone astray in thought’, from the verb hallucinari, from Greek alussein ‘be uneasy or distraught’.