"hear things" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-hear things.ogg Forms: hears things [present, singular, third-person], hearing things [participle, present], heard things [participle, past], heard things [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hear<,,heard> things}} hear things (third-person singular simple present hears things, present participle hearing things, simple past and past participle heard things)
  1. (idiomatic) To imagine that one hears sounds that are not actually real; to have auditory hallucinations. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-hear_things-en-verb-~SCqualc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 92 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, thing. Related terms: things, hear voices
    Sense id: en-hear_things-en-verb-mZEYtr2b

Inflected forms

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