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seeing things
imagining that one sees someone or something that is not there. Lisa says that she saw a ghost, but she was just seeing things. I thought I was seeing things when Bill walked into the room. Someone had told me he was dead.
seeing things
Experiencing hallucinations or delusions, as in I thought I saw my father, but I must have been seeing things; he died twenty years ago . [First half of 1900s]
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Nicholson | | ['nikəlsn] | |
Yared | | - | Biblical Hebrew, Eastern African, Ethiopian |
Dulf | | DULF | Limburgish |
Mahmud | | - | Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay |
Baer | | BER | Limburgish |
Tel | | TEL | English (British) |