
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Formerly an evil spirit supposed to harass or suffocate sleeping people
an event or condition resembling a terrifying dream....
C13 (meaning: incubus; C16: bad dream): from night + Old English mare, mære evil spirit, from Germanic; compare Old Norse mara incubus, Polish zmora, French cauchemar nightmare
experience that is intensely distressing.
A dream arousing feelings of intense fear, horror, and distress.
WORD ORIGIN FOR NIGHTMARE
Being buried alive is a nightmare that ranks alongside masked chainsaw-wielding madmen and enormous tarantulas
“We challenge Mr. Cosby to end this nightmare,” proclaimed Gloria Allred.
His lone stable was a girl from Newport News, Virginia, who had already escaped one nightmare.
You know, I feel the same way about that that I do about The Nightmare Before Christmas.
From the publisher's feed