hallucinate

verb

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hal·lu·ci·nate | \ hə-ˈlü-sə-ˌnāt

hallucinated; hallucinating

Definition of hallucinate

transitive verb

1 : to affect with visions or imaginary perceptions

2 : to perceive or experience as a hallucination

intransitive verb

: to have hallucinations

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Examples of hallucinate in a Sentence

The patient may hallucinate if she has a fever.

Recent Examples on the Web Overdosed on Benadryl while attempting to hallucinate Asphyxiated while attempting to pass out… Hell to Pray From a complaint filed against the City of Boston in January by the Satanic Temple. — Aaron Fagan, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 The social media platform has influenced stunts involving face wax challenges (yes), eating corn on the cob, to a spinning power drill (yes) and taking enough Benadryl to hallucinate (yes). — oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2021 In a spoof of the vampire hysteria that swept over Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Palma’s characters hallucinate bloodsuckers running amok in the Italian countryside. — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021 Maki continues to hallucinate and babble about his favorite football players, or a scene from a Batman movie, said Reed, his father. — Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2021 But the Benadryl challenge, which emerged in 2020, encouraged people to take an excessive amount of the medication in an attempt to hallucinate. — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2021 Drugs like 'shrooms don’t just make people hallucinate. — Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2020 People who hallucinate are said to see _____ elephants; 21. — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2020 The Benadryl Challenge is allegedly making the rounds on TikTok, encouraging social media users to overdose on the over-the-counter drug in order to hallucinate. — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 9 Sep. 2020 See More

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