nightmares

nounbad dream or experience

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noun bad dream or experience

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Word Origin & History

late 13c., "an evil female spirit afflicting sleepers with a feeling of suffocation," compounded from night + mare (3) "goblin that causes nightmares, incubus." Meaning shifted mid-16c. from the incubus to the suffocating sensation it causes. Sense of "any bad dream" first recorded 1829; that of "very distressing experience" is from 1831. Cognate with Middle Dutch nachtmare, German Nachtmahr.

Example Sentences for nightmares

But these memories are all foggy and mixed with dreams and nightmares.

To me that night will always be the most terrible of nightmares.

It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.

All code, of course; we mustn't alarm the whole Pacific with our nightmares.

The faces that he loved are nightmares to him now—all but old Martha's.

It must have been towards morning when at last I shook off my nightmares and fell asleep.

Why this horrible persecution that dug into the depths of his own nightmares to haunt him?

His heart thumped, his feet had that leaden feeling that comes in nightmares.

It was an uninterrupted succession of sudden wakings and of nightmares.

He was as devoid of it as the fetid slime one treads underfoot in nightmares.

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