noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a nightmare scenario (= a very bad thing that might happen )
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The nightmare scenario would be a number of simultaneous terrorist attacks.
recurring dream/nightmare
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
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In reality it would be an administrative nightmare .
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The hon. Gentleman is determined, as ever, to see administrative nightmares where none exists.
ill
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This is a macabre impersonation of a white racist's worst nightmare or crowd-baiting at its most mindless.
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We thought maybe our worst nightmare came true.
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Few suffer the agony of Johanna Young's parents and find that their worst nightmare has become a reality.
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He is your worst corporate nightmare: the Vampire Presenter.
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It was an engineer's worst nightmare .
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They eventually suffered from an embarrassment of riches: they laughingly killed all their enemies and created their worst nightmare .
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The Halloween night fight at London's Earls Court was hyped as the worst nightmare for one of the boxers.
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The scene he saw there confirmed his worst nightmares .
■ NOUN
scenario
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It must be said, however, that this is a nightmare scenario which the Government does not subscribe to.
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Keith says this match was a nightmare scenario and Gloucester are in trouble.
vision
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However, Bland's nightmare vision had a powerful effect on the government's thinking and on public opinion.
■ VERB
become
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It was sold as the fulfilment of a dream but it became a nightmare for many.
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So many different police departments were involved that protecting the president at times became a logistical nightmare .
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All she could recall with any certainty was the tender, soothing voice in a dream that was rapidly becoming a nightmare .
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But it became a real nightmare of conflicting noises a little later on.
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Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare .
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The administrative backlogs and incompetence at certain licensed dealers became a nightmare for clients.
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And for these people the problem can become a nightmare .
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What if our dreams become nightmare , our plans crumble to dust?
create
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Harvey creates a credible nightmare and turns what at first seems a simple eco-sermon into something more weirdly compelling.
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By virtue of its high profile, Magellan created a public relations nightmare for Fidelity.
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Each one created its own nightmare .
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They eventually suffered from an embarrassment of riches: they laughingly killed all their enemies and created their worst nightmare .
end
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They all had a bounden responsibility to start negotiations to end the nightmare .
face
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The parents face a nightmare week-long wait before blood tests show if there has been a hospital blunder.
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Perhaps he should let her go; perhaps he should finally face the nightmare .
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Then they faced an admen's nightmare as one by one their heroes failed.
live
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She sat down on a very solid patio chair and knew she was living a nightmare .
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Computerized Hollywood is giving the world new ways to dream, or perchance to live through waking nightmares .
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She waited and waited, the feeling of living a nightmare that had been with her ever since Thursday intensifying.
recur
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I still shudder recalling the recurring nightmare of Tuesdays, when we went to the art house to lay out the paper.
suffer
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Craig's father Robert says his son is still suffering from nightmares , and has to see a psychiatrist weekly for counselling.
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I have great sympathy for people who are suffering through private nightmares of hopelessness and loss.
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Father-of-two Mr Weddle's former wife, Jacqueline Dearden, 41, has suffered nightmares since the tragedy.
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For many months afterwards, Cissie had suffered awful nightmares , when she would scream for her mam.
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Pat Hurley suffered terrible nightmares and considered suicide.
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William suffered greatly from nightmares as a child.
turn
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But the vision is turning into a political nightmare .
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He and his cloned cohorts kidnap children to steal their dreams, which turn into nightmares .
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Richard could be turning his nightmares to profits, but his dad thinks they may have thrown away a fortune already.
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But his housewarming party turns into a nightmare when his co-workers shed their inhibitions and become unruly.
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At the election it will undoubtedly turn into a nightmare for them.
wake
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For a fleeting second he wondered if he might be dreaming, but this time he had woken into a nightmare .
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Computerized Hollywood is giving the world new ways to dream, or perchance to live through waking nightmares .
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She keeps circling between past and present, memory and oblivion, like some one trying to wake up from a nightmare .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An oil spill on this part of the coast is the conservationists' nightmare scenario.
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As the ship went down, people were rushing around in the dark screaming and yelling. It was an absolute nightmare .
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During the trial, she had nightmares.
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He woke from a nightmare , trembling with fear.
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Highway 17 is a commuter nightmare .
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It was a nightmare driving home in the snow.
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Starting school can be a nightmare for some children.
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The couple's honeymoon turned into a nightmare when Martin suddenly became very ill.
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The hostages described life in the prison camp as a nightmare of fear and uncertainty.
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Thousands of commuters faced a nightmare journey to work because of the strikes.
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We were stuck in a traffic jam for about four hours - it was a nightmare .
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Years after the accident I still have nightmares about it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He came awake suddenly, feeling frightened, as if he had had a nightmare .
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In the early hours of the morning, at about three, Stephen jerked awake from a nightmare .
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Still, Streep and Neeson are wonderful to watch as they show us how easily normality can slip into a nightmare .
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The man looked like something from a bad nightmare .
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There is a difference between a bad dream and a nightmare .
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There were lots of posters and stuffed animals but all of them had a nightmare quality.
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Visions or nightmares for others, but for him daylight events, in full consciousness.