verb
- past tense of hallucinate; experienced sensory perceptions that seem real but are created by the mind
Usage: medical/psychological context
Examples
- The patient hallucinated voices that weren’t there.
- Due to the high fever, she hallucinated strange colors and shapes.
- He hallucinated spiders crawling on the walls during his illness.
- The medication caused her to have hallucinated conversations with people who weren’t present.
- After days without sleep, the hiker hallucinated an oasis in the desert.
- The doctor explained that he had hallucinated the entire episode.