nightmare

nightmare englannista suomeksi

1. painajainen

0. Substantiivi

1. painajainen, mara, ajajainen

2. painajainen

2. Verbi

nightmare englanniksi

1. A very bad or frightening dream. (defdate)

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2. July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club ''The Dark Knight Rises''http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/

With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.

3. Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. (defdate)

4. (quote-journal)

5. (quote-book) utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise.

6. A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep. (defdate)

7. (RQ:Scott Rob Roy)

8. {{quote-text|en|year=1843|author=Edgar Allan Poe|title=The Black Cat

9. A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; paralysis|Sleep paralysis. (defdate)

10. {{quote-book|en

11. 1792, (w), in Danziger & Brady (eds.), ''Boswell: The Great Biographer'' (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 209:

Had been afflicted in the night with that strange complaint called the nightmare.

12. To experience a nightmare.

13. (quote-book)

14. To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.

15. To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.

16. (quote-book)|date=23 April 1660|page=3|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_iter-boreale_wild-robert_1660/page/n2/mode/1up|passage=THe day is broke! ''Melpomene'', be gone; / Hag of my Fancy, let me now alone: / Night-mare my ſoul no more; Go take thy flight / Where Traytors Ghoſts keep an eternal night; (..)

17. (quote-book)|year=1875|page=308|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/stonesfromquarry00browuoft/page/308/mode/1up|passage=Thou things imponderable dost price and weigh / By scales untrue ’gainst the gewgaws and gauds / O’ the World; thy ledger ’neath thy head dost lay / For pillow, nightmared with dreams of thy hoards.

18. (quote-book)|volume=III|location=London|publisher=Publishers|Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York, N.Y.: Inc.|The Macmillan Co.|year=1898|lines=780–785|page=484|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/tragediesofeurip03euriuoft/page/484/mode/1up|passage=And in my sleep a vision nightmared me:— / The steeds I tended, and at Rhesus’ side / Drave in the car, I saw as in a dream / Mounted of wolves that rode upon their backs; / And with their tails these lashed the horses’ flanks, / Scourging them on.

19. (quote-book) I slept fitfully—it was hot, the very pillows seemed to sweat—and when I did fall off in sleep, I tossed and tossed, disturbed, I think, by the call of old-new affinities, nightmared by the tall Sudanese who paced my dreams, veiled in a yashmak, stuttering.