Idiom
hear voices
Meaning
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.
Examples
“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.”
Examples
simple
“The patient tells the doctor that he hears voices.”
contextual
“She felt frightened when she started to hear voices that no one else could notice.”
complex
“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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