{
    "term": "nightmare",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a dream that is very frightening or unpleasant",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He still has nightmares about the accident."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has a recurring nightmare about being stuck in a lift."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Survivors suffer flashbacks, nightmares and severe depression."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The faces of all the people he had killed haunted his nightmares."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film gave me nightmares."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Horror films always give me nightmares."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["awful", "horrible", "terrible"],
                "verb + nightmare": ["have", "suffer", "suffer from"],
                "nightmare + verb": ["haunt somebody", "plague somebody"],
                "preposition": ["nightmare about"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an experience that is very frightening and unpleasant, or very difficult to deal with",
            "sensetop": "nightmare for somebody",
            "labels": "(informal)(informal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The trip turned into a nightmare when they both got sick."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nobody knows what's going on—**it's a nightmare**!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Filling in all those forms was a nightmare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Losing a child is most people's **worst nightmare**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If it goes ahead, it will be the **nightmare scenario** *(= the worst thing that could happen)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Travel in the city was becoming a logistical nightmare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What a nightmare for you!",
                    "contextForm": "nightmare for somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The refugees had survived a living nightmare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The writer evokes a nightmare vision of a future on a polluted planet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their dream of living in the country turned into a nightmare when they both fell seriously ill."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the nightmare scenario of mass unemployment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has spoken about it to help others get over the nightmare of addiction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The nightmare began last Wednesday afternoon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These new regulations will be an administrative nightmare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This has been an absolute nightmare for me and my family."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["awful", "horrible", "real"],
                "verb + nightmare": ["endure", "face", "live"],
                "nightmare + verb": ["be over", "come true"],
                "nightmare + noun": ["scenario", "vision", "world"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnaɪtmeə(r)/",
                "audio": "ni/nightmare/nightmare__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈnaɪtmer/",
                "audio": "ni/nightmare/nightmare__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (denoting a female evil spirit who was thought to lie upon and suffocate sleepers): from night + Old English mære ‘incubus’."
}