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单词 nightmare
释义
night·mare (nītmâr)
n.
1. A dream arousing feelings of intense fear, horror, and distress.
2. An event or experience that is intensely distressing.
3. A demon or spirit once thought to plague sleeping people.

[Middle English, a female demon that afflicts sleeping people : night, night; see NIGHT + mare, goblin (from Old English; see mer- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).]

nightmarish adj.
nightmarish·ly adv.
nightmarish·ness n.
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