hearing voices
hearing voices is the present participle and gerund of hear voices.
Meaning of hear voices
Verb
hear voices (third-person singular simple present hears voices, present participle hearing voices, simple past and past participle heard voices)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, voice.
- Have the experience of hearing voices which are not audible to others; to experience auditory hallucinations.
- 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.1991 April 19, Why Are They Here? (television production), [E. Fuller?] Torrey (actor), ABC
Questions about hearing voices
- What is hearing voices the present participle and gerund of?
- Hearing voices is the present participle and gerund of hear voices.
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