it increaseth fearful dreams, incubus, night-walking, crying out, and much unquietness […] .
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Incubus
//ˈɪŋ.kjʊ.bəs//
Synonyms for "incubus" (91 found)
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Related words (45)
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82 translations across 27 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- باروك noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
- جَاثُوم noun (an evil spirit)
- حلم noun (a nightmare)
- كابوس noun (a nightmare)
Basque
1 entries- inkubo noun (an evil spirit)
Bulgarian
3 entries- инкуб noun (an evil spirit)
- кошмар noun (a nightmare)
- кошмар noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
Catalan
4 entries- íncub noun (an evil spirit)
- íncub noun (a nightmare)
- íncube noun (an evil spirit)
- íncube noun (a nightmare)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 夢魘 /梦魇 noun (a nightmare)
- 惡魔 /恶魔 noun (an evil spirit)
Czech
1 entries- incubus noun (an evil spirit)
Dutch
4 entries- incubus noun (an evil spirit)
- juk noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
- last noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
- nachtmerrie noun (a nightmare)
Esperanto
1 entries- inkubo noun (an evil spirit)
Finnish
2 entries- incubus noun (an evil spirit)
- miespuolinen demoni noun (an evil spirit)
French
4 entries- boulet noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
- cauchemar noun (a nightmare)
- croix noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
- fardeau noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
German
4 entries- Albtraum noun (a nightmare)
- Inkubus noun (an evil spirit)
- Kreuz noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
- Last noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
Hungarian
3 entries- inkubusz noun (an evil spirit)
- lidérc noun (an evil spirit)
- lidércnyomás noun (a nightmare)
Italian
2 entries- incubo noun (an evil spirit)
- incubo noun (a nightmare)
Japanese
4 entries- インキュバス noun (an evil spirit)
- 夢魔 noun (an evil spirit)
- 悪夢 noun (a nightmare)
- 重荷 noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
Korean
1 entries- 몽마 noun (an evil spirit)
Latin
4 entries- incubo noun (an evil spirit)
- incubo noun (a nightmare)
- incubus noun (an evil spirit)
- incubus noun (a nightmare)
Lithuanian
1 entries- inkubai noun (an evil spirit)
Marathi
1 entries- इंक्युबस noun (an evil spirit)
Persian
3 entries- بختک noun (an evil spirit)
- درفنجک noun (an evil spirit)
- کابوس noun (an evil spirit)
Polish
2 entries- inkub noun (an evil spirit)
- koszmar noun (a nightmare)
Portuguese
3 entries- pesadelo noun (a nightmare)
- íncubo noun (an evil spirit)
- íncubo noun (a nightmare)
Romanian
1 entries- incub noun (an evil spirit)
Russian
4 entries- бре́мя noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
- гнёт noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
- груз забо́т noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
- де́мон noun (an evil spirit)
Spanish
4 entries- carga noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
- cruz noun (oppressive thing or person; a burden)
- pesadilla noun (a nightmare)
- íncubo noun (an evil spirit)
Sumerian
4 entries- 𒀀𒇲 noun (an evil spirit)
- 𒀉𒉺 noun (an evil spirit)
- 𒋼𒇲 noun (an evil spirit)
- 𒌜 noun (an evil spirit)
Swedish
1 entries- incubus noun (an evil spirit)
Turkish
1 entries- karabasan noun (an evil spirit)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Again he felt the impulse of flight: but his body was a dry dead incubus that refused to obey his volition.
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Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.
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Notions of civic virtue were at that moment changing, in ways which would make of Louis's alleged vices an incubus on the back of the monarchy.
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