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▸ noun: (figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
▸ noun: (now rare) A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
▸ noun: (now chiefly historical) A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To experience a nightmare.
▸ verb: (transitive) To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.
▸ verb: (transitive) To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.
Similar:
incubus,
night terror,
oneirodynia,
narcoma,
night palsy,
nyctophobia,
noctiphobia,
nocturnal emission,
oneirophrenia,
necromance,
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worst,
horrible,
long,
terrible,
hideous,
recurring,
real,
logistical,
administrative,
recurrent,
whole
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