nightmares

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  1. noun A dream arousing feelings of intense fear, horror, and distress.
  2. noun An event or experience that is intensely distressing.
  3. noun A demon or spirit once thought to plague sleeping people.

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  • She supposed it would be like her nightmares, those nightmares which everyone has, where someone or something is chasing you, and just as it grabs you, or just as you fall over a cliff, you wake up with the damnedest feeling. —  140 - Jiu San
  • And always, chasing her through the nightmares was a vast and nameless evil. —  The Flight of the Wren
  • He could not back out now even if he found all three girls to be as ugly and uncouth as his nightmares were beginning to depict them. —  The Obedient Bride
  • New York State unemployment figures are the stuff of nightmares, and NYS unemployment insurance claims are trickling in more steadily than before. —  All Categories Featured Content - Associated Content
  • No -- nightmares are nightmares, no matter how bad Tonight's TNA iMPACT Preview, New TNA Superstar Debuts
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