see things

See also: seethings

English

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Verb

see things (third-person singular simple present sees things, present participle seeing things, simple past saw things, past participle seen things)

1. (idiomatic) To imagine that one sees things that are not actually present; to have visual hallucinations.

   It was there before. I think I'm seeing things.

Usage notes

• Used chiefly in continuous tenses (seeing things).
• Not all uses of "see" and "things" together will be idiomatic. For instance:

  "to see things (that) …" is likely literal.

  "to see things are …" is literally "to see that things are …"

Synonyms

• see shit (vulgar)

See also

• hear things

Anagrams

• eightness, sheetings, sightseen