nightmare

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A very unpleasant or frightening dream.

   “I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.

   “It haunted me, however, more than once, like a night-mare.”

4. isim A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; sleep paralysis.

   “The Night-mare generally ſeizes people ſleeping on their backs, and often begins with frightful dreams, which are ſoon ſucceeded by a difficult reſpiration, a violent oppreſſion on the breaſt, and a total privation of voluntary motion.”

5. fiil To experience a nightmare.

   “Brother Fary of Omaha was nightmaring the rest of the night.”

6. fiil To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.

   “She was the last person I’d expected to see, although I had not expected to see anyone at all. For a moment I thought it was a nightmare, and that I was nightmaring the whole thing.”

7. fiil To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.

   “THe day is broke! Melpomene, be gone; / Hag of my Fancy, let me now alone: / Night-mare my ſoul no more; Go take thy flight / Where Traytors Ghoſts keep an eternal night; […]”