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Tekoälykääntäjä

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS:
    • IPA: [ˈnaɪt.mɛɹ]
  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈnaɪt.mɛə/
  • GenAm:
    • IPA: /naɪt.mɛəɹ/
    • IPA: [nʌɪʔ.mɛəɹ]
Käännös
Substantiivit
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Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. (now rare) A female demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
  2. A very bad or frightening dream.
  3. (figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.

Esimerkit

  • It haunted me, however, more than once, like the nightmare.
  • I started, hourly, from dreams of unutterable fear, to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight—an incarnate Night-Mare that I had no power to shake off—incumbent eternally upon my heart!
  • I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
  • 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.
  • Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.
  • — Faites de beaux cauchemars.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkonightmares