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night + mare
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nightmare (plural nightmares)
- A very bad or frightening dream.
- I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
- (figuratively) 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.
- (obsolete) A demon, often in the form of a goblin, thought to plague people while they slept
[edit] Translations
a very bad or frightening dream
- Albanian: ankth sq(sq)
- Arabic: كابوس ar(ar) (kābūs) m.
- Armenian: մղձավանջ (mġdzavanj)
- Asturian: velea, pesadiella
- Basque: amesgaizto
- Bengali: দুঃস্বপ্ন (duḥsbapna), কুস্বপ্ন (kusbapna)
- Bosnian: noćna mora bs(bs) f., košmar bs(bs) m.
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: malson m.
- Chinese: trad. 噩夢, simpl. 噩梦 (pinyin: èmèng)
- Czech: noční můra cs(cs) f.
- Danish: mareridt da(da) n.
- Dutch: nachtmerrie nl(nl) f.
- Esperanto: sonĝaĉo eo(eo)
- Estonian: õudusunenägu, košmaar
- Finnish: painajainen fi(fi)
- French: cauchemar fr(fr) m., mauvais rêve
- Galician: pesadelo
- Georgian: კოშმარი (košmari), მაჯლაჯუნა (madžladžuna)
- German: Albtraum m., Alptraum m., Albdruck m. (old), Alpdruck m. (old) Nachtmahr
- Greek: εφιάλτης el(el) (efiáltis) m.
- Gujarati: દુઃસ્વપ્ન
- Hawaiian: moehewa
- Hebrew: סיוט
- Hindi: दुःस्वप्न (duḥsapn) m., कुस्वप्न (kusapn) m.
- Hungarian: lidércnyomás hu(hu)
- Icelandic: martröð is(is) f.
- Indonesian: mimpi buruk id(id)
- Irish: tromluí ga(ga) m.
- Italian: incubo it(it) m., brutto sogno
- Japanese: 悪夢 (あくむ) (akumu)
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Khmer: សប្តិអាក្រក់ (sopdteu aagrok), ទុសុបិន (dtosobeun)
- Korean: 악몽 (akmong)
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a bad or difficult experience
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