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See double   /si dˈəbəl/   Listen
See double

verb
1.
See things as if they were there twice.






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"See double" Quotes from Famous Books



... enough," replied Kenelm, in a sullen voice, "to think I see double. I imagined that before me sat the austere adversary of the insanity of love and the miseries of wedlock. Now, I fancy I listen to a puling sentimentalist uttering the platitudes which the other Decimus Roach had already refuted. Certainly either I see double, or you amuse yourself with mocking ...
— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... was upon the causeway mentioned; and they say it was closed with two doors set in the solid wall, the external one opening outward, the internal one inward, and both were of the stone called chay. Thus, one of these doors backed up against the other, as we sometimes see double doors in our prisons. They were always guarded with double guards, one within, the other without, and these guards were changed every seven days. In the open country, on the other side of the ravine, there were a number of mounds, about a quarter of ...
— The Annals of the Cakchiquels • Daniel G. Brinton



Words linked to "See double" :   see, misperceive



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