noun
1 bad dream
ADJECTIVE
▪ awful , horrible , terrible , terrifying
▪ vivid
▪ recurring
VERB + NIGHTMARE
▪ have , suffer , suffer from
▪ wake from , wake up from
▪ give sb
▪
The movie gave me ~s.
▪ haunt
▪
The faces of all the people he had killed haunted his ~s.
NIGHTMARE + VERB
▪ haunt sb , plague sb
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ about
▪
I have ~s about drowning.
2 bad/feared experience
ADJECTIVE
▪ awful , horrible , real , terrible
▪ absolute , complete , total
▪ ultimate , worst
▪
Losing a child is my worst ~.
▪ personal
▪ living
▪
The refugees had survived a living ~.
▪ long
▪ administrative , bureaucratic , financial ( esp. BrE ), logistical , etc.
VERB + NIGHTMARE
▪ endure , face , live , suffer , survive
▪ become , prove ( esp. BrE ), turn into
▪
Their dream of living in the country turned into a ~.
▪ create
▪ escape , escape from
▪ relive
NIGHTMARE + VERB
▪ be over
▪ come true
NIGHTMARE + NOUN
▪ scenario , vision
▪
the ~ scenario of mass unemployment
▪
The writer evokes a ~ vision of a future on a polluted planet.
▪ world
▪ journey ( esp. BrE )