Word Finder - nightmare

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

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Sleep paralysis.

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A very bad or frightening dream.

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I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.

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

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Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.

Lost souls, shut out of the underworld, was the greatest nightmare for Death.

He's a nightmare to work for.

It was the moment she realized her nightmare was beginning.

She had a nightmare about Alex being stabbed.

She awoke six more times willing the nightmare to be over.

I feel like I'm in a nightmare.

She needed to run away, far away, until this nightmare was over.

This is a nightmare waiting to happen, she said with a sigh and a hot glare at Toni.

Another … thing … had entered her nightmare and taken over.

He sensed the visions in her head, not surprised to see his own black memories playing on the screens on the back of her eyelids along with a dark nightmare of a man in a corner crying.

Thank goodness the molar nightmare was over.

She awoke and readied herself for the world, convinced everything had been a nightmare caused by exhaustion.

Larminie cited an instance of a rhyme current in the Orkneys as a charm against nightmare, which confuses Arthur with Siegfried and his winning of the Valkyr.

The adventure turned into a nightmare.

The greatest day of my life turned into a nightmare during my reception.

She shook her head, not about to believe anything of the sort happened outside her nightmare.

He was warm and solid at her back, the only thing capable of grounding her in the nightmare of a world she lived in.

You know, this is a man's worst nightmare.

It was the worst place she'd ever been, worse than any horror movie, worse than any nightmare.

That thought coupled with her nightmare made her even angrier at not being able to eat.

Or was it a nightmare only?

Dealing with deities was a nightmare.

She woke and prayed fervently for an answer, and then fell asleep again - to the same nightmare.

It's kind of like when you wake up from a terrible nightmare, and then something happens to remind you of it.

The other world, with its imagined heaven and hell, haunted the conscience like a nightmare.

A few steps past the tree line, she broke into a run, away from the souls, the Immortals, the nightmare her life had become a few days ago.

As Death.s best assassin, Gabriel wasn.t the type of person anyone ever wanted to run into, let alone when awaking in a dark room after a nightmare.

Gabriel.s words and her nightmare haunted her, reminded her she couldn.t let herself fall in love with him now.

He was tall and fierce, standing so still she thought herself dreaming up a hero worthy of a nightmare.

Ask anyone who's ever experienced a nightmare haircut that took months to grow back into "normal" condition - there's nothing more important than someone who really knows the ins and outs of hairstyling and cutting.

Gwyneth Paltrow has called her body a "post baby nightmare" in an interview with People after giving birth in 2006.

Getting pregnant is every teen girl's nightmare, but it's possible if you've been sexually active in recent months and haven't used any sort of protection.

Many parents talk of nightmare shopping scenarios with daughters where everyone ends up in tears.

Set two, released in the spring of 2010, introduced Steamboat Mickey and Minnie as well as popular muppets and characters from Nightmare Before Christmas.

In October 1993, Tim Burton's famous stop-motion animated Nightmare Before Christmas movie was released and has since become a movie fan holiday favorite ever since.

Parent Previews can offers reviews of movies, including Nightmare Before Christmas, from a family viewing perspective.

From screen shots and stills to 3-D animations to slide shows to promotional images, a number of Nightmare related wallpapers can be found.

While it may sound easy to create a tree skirt from a kit, it is important not to take on too challenging a project that could become a holiday nightmare rather than a treasured memento.

Check out Easter Bunny Costumes and Nightmare Factory for some of the available options.

Nightmare Factory - This site offers spookily gothic vampire clothing for kids, from traditional to elaborate costumes.

Love quizzes usually focus on one area of a relationship, and have a catchy title related to the focus, like " Dream Date or Nightmare Mate?"

Once the couple has decided which ring characteristics are the most important, they can begin to investigate different cost cutting tips to purchase the ring of their dreams without a price nightmare.

Jack Skellington tote bags are wildly popular with fans of the cult classic The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Like many of Tim Burton's movies, The Nightmare Before Christmas quickly found a following within the public.

Mostly comprised of emo young adults and those who love innovative animation, The Nightmare Before Christmas enjoyed boosted ticket sales due to its close correlation with Disney.

Jack Skellington totes can be found at various retail depots countrywide that sell Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise.

If you want to know who will be the peas to your carrots, your soul mate or your worst relationship nightmare, keep reading to find your best astrological love matches.

When the job is not a good match, on the other hand, summer can be a nightmare.

Several slasher film franchises were born in the eighties, most notably Friday the Thirteenth and A Nightmare on Elm Street; each of which has piled up multiple sequels.

Late fees, rewinding fees, breakage fees ... it was a customer-service nightmare.