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A terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
Answer for the clue "A terrifying or deeply upsetting dream ", 9 letters:
nightmare
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Word definitions for nightmare in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a nightmare scenario (= a very bad thing that might happen ) ▪ The nightmare scenario would be a number of simultaneous terrorist attacks. recurring dream/nightmare COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE administrative ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Nightmare ", also known as " (Running From This) Nightmare ", is a song by American recording artist and actress Tuesday Knight . The song serves as the opening song for the fourth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, A Nightmare on Elm ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of nightmare.
And then, at the promptings of that spirit of reaction that was abroad in those days when France was awakening from the nightmare of terror, some one made there and then a collection on his behalf, and came to thrust into his hands a great bundle of assignats and bank bills, which to the humble cocassier represented almost a fortune.
He was essentially antipolitical and now the war only reappeared in nightmares.
To think how sure he had been the old priest could assuage his nightmares.
Its wonderful drug Maxatil had helped countless women through the nightmare of menopause, but now it was under attack by the same sharks that had bankrupted A.
The walls were hung with cloths painted in bedlamite scarlets and purples and oranges--not the rude figures of men and animals common on the teepees, but a geometrical nightmare of interwoven cubes and circles.
Mars pressed the same incubus upon all newcomers to her soil: a nightmare of falling, falling, falling into bottomless space.
The bird would snatch his nightmares from him as he dreamed them and then fly with them to the Astral Grotto where they would be incinerated by Manck, the celestial blacksmith, in his essential furnace.
The fright arose from the series of nightmares the girl suffered every night, brought on, she was convinced, by the foreboding presence of Milord in the next room.
It was a gloomy shadowy place at the best, but in those hideous shadows lurked the obscene shapes of monstrous polyps and strange, misformed fish which were like the creations of a nightmare.
Go where you may in Clerkenwell, on every hand are multiform evidences of toil, intolerable as a nightmare.
Tonight the nightmares would come, as they came every night for musers who used magic to harm others.
In less than two hours, the day would be turned into a nightmare for screws and nonces alike.
The evening, which was fast assuming the proportions of a nightmare, had culminated in a brief exchange with the Nonesuch which provided her with much food for thought, and was open to more than one interpretation.
I thought, a photograph from which Pickman meant to paint a background as hideous as the nightmare it was to enhance.
The nightmare people, or pranksters, or whatever they were, had successfully covered their tracks.