MEANING
To experience a perception without a corresponding external stimulus.
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Words that belong together
- hallucinate a voice
- hallucinate a figure
On the page
The account described how she hallucinated the figure after prolonged sleeplessness.
He had hallucinated a voice, not deliberately invented one.
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Word forms
- Base
- hallucinate
- Past tense
- hallucinated
- Past participle
- hallucinated
- Present participle
- hallucinating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- hallucinate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are hallucinating
- Present perfect
- have/has hallucinated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been hallucinating
- Past
- hallucinated
- Past continuous
- was/were hallucinating
- Past perfect
- had hallucinated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been hallucinating
- Future
- will hallucinate
- Future continuous
- will be hallucinating
- Future perfect
- will have hallucinated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been hallucinating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: hallucinate; hallucinates; hallucinated; hallucinated; hallucinating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: hallucinates.
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