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Meaning of hear voices | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, voice.
  2. Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations.
    idiomatic

Examples

“They're hearing voices, they may have delusional thinking. They may have illogical thinking, so that when you talk to them they don't make very good sense. That's the disease called schizophrenia.”
“From this time onward, [John] Mason was a changed man: he began to hear voices and experience visions of the coming millennium.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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