Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
nightmare
IPA transcription: [n'aɪtm,ɛɹ]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
nightmare, incubus
Meaning:
a situation resembling a terrifying dream
Synonyms:
nightmare
Meaning:
a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
Usage examples
Merely for herself, the nightmare might have left her cold.
Ah, the ice! A long and sordid nightmare was that, God knows.
It was still a nightmare world, but the dream was getting pleasanter.
And through it all Buck staggered along at the head of the team as in a nightmare.
Nightmare is caused by the nightmare man, a kind of evil spirit, struggling with one.
To William it was like some ghastly nightmare after an evening's entertainment at the cinematograph.
We'll dump the Atom Smasher into the pond, and try to forget that we've had anything except a bad nightmare."
It was like a nightmare, that blind search under the pale three-quarter moon and the black, star-blotched sky.
All were happy--the nightmare of unjust dealings, of Norman oppression, of laws for the poor and none for the rich, was ended.
Or else it looked as if it had gradually decomposed into that nightmare condition, out of the overflowings of the polluted stream.