nightmare
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A very unpleasant or frightening dream.
I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
- 2.
(figuratively)Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.
- 3.
(archaic)(now rare) A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
- 4.
(historical)(now chiefly historical) A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; sleep paralysis.
Had been afflicted in the night with that strange complaint called the nightmare.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To experience a nightmare.
- 2.
(transitive)To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.
- 3.
(transitive)To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.
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ine-pro From Middle English nyghtmare, from Old English *nihtmare, equivalent to night + mare#Etymology 2 + mare. Cognate with nichtmare and nichtmeer, nachtmerrie, nachtmār, Nachtmahr.