nightmare
IPA: nˈaɪtmɛr
noun
- (now rare) A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
- (now chiefly historical) A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis.
- A very bad or frightening dream.
- (figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
verb
- (intransitive) To experience a nightmare.
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Examples of "nightmare" in Sentences
- I had a nightmare.
- It was such a nightmare.
- The horrible party was a nightmare.
- It was deliciously impalpable nightmare.
- He was scared to think about the nightmare.
- For the nightmare thing on the reference desk.
- Wesley is in the midst of a horrifying nightmare.
- I once had a dream, only to have waken in this nightmare.
- Aye too, once had a dream, only to have waken in this nightmare.
- As it is the page is a nightmare and waste of time for the layman.
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