How to pronounce “nightmare”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A very unpleasant or frightening dream. [from 19th c.]
• (figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. [from 20th c.]
• (now rare) A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep. [from 14th c.]
• (now chiefly historical) A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; sleep paralysis. [from 16th c.]
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To experience a nightmare.
• (transitive) To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.
• (transitive) To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.

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