Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈdeɪˌmɛə/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
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/ˈdeɪˌmɛɚ/
Pronunciation notes
- US
Noun
A vivid, unpleasant mental image, having the characteristics of a nightmare, during wakefulness.
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What walks I took alone, down muddy lanes, in the bad winter weather, carrying that parlor, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone in it, everywhere: a monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, a daymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight that brooded on my wits, and blunted them!
Sometimes I can't help but feel helpless / I'm havin' daymares in daytime wide awake try to relate / This can't be happenin' like I'm in a dream while I'm walkin' / Cause what I'm seein is hauntin', human beings like ghost and zombies
“Bobbie Nell, that bird just wants to get out of your house. He's trapped in a bird nightmare.” “You're all nightmares! And I'm about to be your nightmare and your daymare.”
Verb
To have a daymare.
Usage- Intransitive
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There must be something better to spend my precious time daymaring.
She daymared through each one, painting dark, almost black canvases with indistinguishable figures floating in a stormy sky.
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Instead he’s daymaring the burning sandy wastes of southern Iraq – the unknowable concrete-and-mud-brick towns and forgotten bazaars where the Rams could well lose themselves … in a wilderness of dust.