"hear voices" meaning in English

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      "form": "heard voices",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, voice."
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          "_dis1": "59 41",
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          "ref": "1991 April 19, Why Are They Here? (television production), [E. Fuller?] Torrey (actor), ABC:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2018 June, Martin Greig, “Elijah in Dorset: William Freke and Enthusiasm in England and the Atlantic World at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century”, in Church History, →DOI, page 439:",
          "text": "From this time onward, [John] Mason was a changed man: he began to hear voices and experience visions of the coming millennium.",
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        "Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations."
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        "(idiomatic) Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations."
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        "(idiomatic) Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations."
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