NIGHTMARE
\nˈa͡ɪtme͡ə], \nˈaɪtmeə], \n_ˈaɪ_t_m_eə]\
Definitions of NIGHTMARE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a situation resembling a terrifying dream
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
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A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus.
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Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.
By Oddity Software
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A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
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A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus.
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Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.
By Noah Webster.
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A series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep which are dissociated from the usual stream of consciousness of the waking state.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A dreadful dream accompanied with pressure on the breast, and a feeling of powerlessness of motion or speech.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Oppressive dreams attended with fright and sense of suffocation.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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