nightmare
/ˈnaɪt.mɛɚ/ nom B2En français : cauchemar, mauvais rêve, tourment
- A very unpleasant or frightening dream. · I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
- 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.
- A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; sleep paralysis.
Pluriel nightmares
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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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