Difference between Hallucinating and Ill

What is the difference between Hallucinating and Ill?

Hallucinating as a verb is to seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination. while Ill as a verb is badly; very incompletely. often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase.

Hallucinating

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination.

Ill

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Suffering from a disease.Having an urge to vomit.Bad, often connoting abuse or neglect.Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.]Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Badly; very incompletely. Often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase.Scarcely.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.Harm or injury.Evil; moral wrongfulness.A physical ailment; an illness.Unfavorable remarks or opinions.PCP.

Example sentence: Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

We hope you now know whether to use Hallucinating or Ill in your sentence.

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