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SEE DOUBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does see double mean? 

SEE DOUBLE (verb)
  The verb SEE DOUBLE has 1 sense:

1. see things as if they were there twiceplay

  Familiarity information: SEE DOUBLE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SEE DOUBLE (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

See things as if they were there twice

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

After taking the drug, John saw double

Hypernyms (to "see double" is one way to...):

misperceive (perceive incorrectly)

"See double" entails doing...:

see (perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s


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