nightmare
/ˈnaɪt.mɛɚ/ verb C2- To experience a nightmare.
- To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.
- To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.
He/she/it nightmares · Past nightmared · Past participle nightmared · -ing form nightmaring
Verb forms
- Base form
- nightmare
- He/she/it
- nightmares
- Past
- nightmared
- Past participle
- nightmared
- -ing form
- nightmaring
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In that deeply peaceful atmosphere one could forget, or remember only as some fantastic nightmare, that darkened study with the sprawling, bloodstained figure on the floor.
"It was morning when I wakened, and it seemed to me that instead of coming out into a world of sanity I had emerged into some extraordinary nightmare.
You went to sleep full of thoughts of vengeance; they weighed heavily upon your stomach; you had the nightmare—that’s all.
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