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How to pronounce “nightmare”
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Pronunciation guide for nightmare
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of nightmare with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Amazonia
which is a short chapter I want to read to you which is called My Nightmares.
- Definition summary
- A very unpleasant or frightening dream. [from 19th c.]
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How to pronounce nightmare
Amazonia

which is a short chapter I want to read to you which is called My Nightmares.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “nightmare”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A very unpleasant or frightening dream. [from 19th c.]
- (figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. [from 20th c.]
- (now rare) A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep. [from 14th c.]
- (now chiefly historical) A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; sleep paralysis. [from 16th c.]
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To experience a nightmare.
- (transitive) To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.
- (transitive) To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.
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