hallucinate
verb [intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they hallucinate | |
he / she / it hallucinates | |
past simple hallucinated | |
past participle hallucinated | |
-ing form hallucinating |
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. 她开始产生幻觉并发作。 - hallucinate something
Heathcliff starts hallucinating Cathy's image everywhere. 希斯克利夫开始到处产生凯茜的幻觉。 - hallucinate that…
He hallucinated that agents were trying to poison him. 他产生幻觉,认为特工试图毒害他。
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’.