英语词汇“nightmare”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	nightmare
释义	night·mare I. \ˈnītˌma(a)](ə)r, -me], ]ə\ noun Etymology: Middle English, from night (I) + mare (spirit) 1. : an evil spirit formerly thought to oppress people during sleep: as a. : incubus b. : succubus c. : a hag sometimes believed to be accompanied by nine attendant spirits < the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the scene of her gambols — Washington Irving > 2. : a frightening dream accompanied by a sense of oppression or suffocation that usually awakens the sleeper 3. a. : something producing a feeling of burden, agitation, anxiety, or terror : a source of trouble or worry < the worst nightmares were the bridges high above rushing torrents — Dillon Ripley > < the nightmare of the surgeon dealing with battle wounds is infection — C.L.Boltz > b. : apprehension, worry < the life of a hotel man here is precarious and full of nightmares — Sam Schneider > 4. : an experience, situation, or work of imagination having the monstrous character of a nightmare < their existence would be one living nightmare of hideous watchfulness and dread — Blue Book > < signs that we dwellers in the modern nightmare love one another — F.A.Swinnerton > < an enormous imitation palace … a nightmare of pretentiousness — John Hersey > Synonyms: see fancy II. adjective 1. : of or relating to a nightmare < a nightmare obsession in some current poetry > 2. : nightmarish < began a nightmare existence in an iron lung — New York Times Book. Review > < years that seemed to pass with nightmare speed — William DuBois >
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