see\ things

see\ things
v. phr. informal
To imagine sights which are not real; think you see what is not there.

I had not seen him for twenty years and when we met on the street I thought I was seeing things.

She woke her husband to tell him she had seen a face at the window, but he told her she was seeing things.


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