HALLUCINATE


Meaning of HALLUCINATE in English

hal ‧ lu ‧ ci ‧ nate /həˈluːsəneɪt, həˈluːsɪneɪt/ BrE AmE verb [intransitive]

[ Date: 1800-1900 ; Language: Latin ; Origin: past participle of hallucinari 'to dream' ]

to see or hear things that are not really there

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THESAURUS

▪ 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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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When I saw the walls moving, I thought I must be hallucinating.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.