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Definition of NightMare

Nightmare
Nightmare Night"mare`, n. [Night + mare incubus. See Mare incubus.] 1. A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep. 2. A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus. --Dunglison. 3. Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence.

Meaning of NightMare from wikipedia

- A nightmare, also known as a bad dream, is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong emotional response from the mind, typically fear but also despair...
- NightMare is a scareware program distributed on the Fish Disks for the Amiga computer (Fish #448). It is generally credited to be the first scareware...
- Night Mare is a fantasy novel by American writer Piers Anthony, the sixth book of the Xanth series . In the book, Xanth is under threat of a barbarian...
- engraving was underscored by Erasmus Darwin's short poem "Night-Mare": So on his Nightmare through the evening fog Flits the squab Fiend o'er fen, and...
- if sitting on their chest or the foot of their bed. The word "night-mare" or "nightmare" was used to describe this phenomenon before the word received...
- Nightmare (ナイトメア, Naitomea) is a ****anese visual kei rock band formed in Sendai, Tōhoku, in 2000. It has consisted of Yomi (lead vocals), Sakito (lead...
- people's chests while they sleep, bringing on nightmares. The word mare comes (through Middle English mare) from the Old English feminine noun mære (which...
- Mare of Easttown is an American crime drama television miniseries created and written by Brad Ingelsby for HBO. Directed by Craig Zobel, the series premiered...
- for these beings was mare or mære (from a proto-Germanic *marōn, cf. Old Norse mara), hence comes the mare in the word nightmare. The word might be cognate...
- (folklore) or nightmare, a demon of Germanic folklore Night Mare, a 1983 novel by Piers Anthony The Nightmare, a painting by Henry Fuseli Nightmare (Marvel...