hear voices
Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“The patient tells the doctor that he hears voices.”
“She felt frightened when she started to hear voices that no one else could notice.”
“The protagonist struggled to maintain his composure as he began to hear voices, a symptom that signaled his descent into a state of profound psychological distress.”
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find one's voice
To become willing or able to talk or otherwise express one's opinions.
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good voice to beg bacon
An unpleasant-sounding voice.
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hear out
To listen to someone until that person has finished speaking; to thoroughly consider all aspects of someone's argument.
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hear the end of it
To cease to be told about, or nagged because of, something.
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hear the grass grow
To have an extremely sensitive sense of hearing.
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hear things
To imagine that one hears sounds that are not actually real; to have auditory hallucinations.
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hear through the grapevine
To hear rumors; to learn through hearsay.
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I can't hear you over the sound of
Said to dismiss what the interlocutor is saying.
Last updated August 10, 2026