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hallucinate
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verb (hallucinates, hallucinating, hallucinated)
  1. To imagine and dream unreal things. To have visions; To experience a hallucination.
hallucination
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noun
  1. A sensory perception of something that does not exist, arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; a delusion.
  • Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. - W. A. Hammond
    1. The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; an error, mistake or blunder.
  • This must have been the of the transcriber. - Addison
hallucinatory
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adjective
  1. Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination
hebephrenia
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noun
  1. (obsolete) A type of mental disorder occuring during puberty.
  2. A form of schizophrenia characterised by inappropriate behaviour and emotional responses.
hemophobia
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noun
  1. Fear of blood.
hurt
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noun
  1. (archaic) a wound or pain
    • 1605, I have received a . " William Shakespeare, King Lear III.vii
verb (hurts, hurting, hurt)
  1. (intransitive) to be painful
  2. (transitive) to cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury
  3. (transitive) to cause (somebody) emotional pain
adjective
  1. wounded, physically injured
  2. pained
hydrophobia
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noun
  1. (pathology) An aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; rabies itself.
  2. fear, Fear of water.
hydrophobic
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adjective
  1. (physics),(chemistry) lacking an affinity for water; unable to absorb, or be wetted by water
    1. of, or having hydrophobia (rabies)
hyperactivity
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noun
  1. excessive and pathological movement and restlessness
hyperkinesia
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noun
  1. hyperkinesis
hypertension
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noun
  1. (pathology) The disease or disorder of abnormally high blood pressure.
hypo
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noun
  1. (photography) sodium thiosulfate, a photographic fixing agent.
  2. (slang) A hypoglycaemia attack in a person with diabetes.
  3. (slang) The substance sodium hyposulfite.
  4. (slang) A hypodermic syringe .
  5. (slang) hypothecation, Hypothecation.
hypochondria
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noun
  1. (medicine) A psychological disorder characterized by a persistent feeling that one is ill.
  2. (anatomy) Plural of hypochondrium.
hypochondriac
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noun
  1. A person affected with hypochondria.
adjective
  1. Related to, or affected by hypochondria
  2. Related to, or located in the hypochondrium.
hysteria
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noun
  1. A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
  2. Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.
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