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Dreaming and dreams

dream

noun

something that you experience in your mind while you are sleeping. A dream in which frightening things happen is called a bad dream or a nightmare

dream

verb

to experience things in your mind while you are sleeping

incubus

noun

a cause of worry, especially a bad dream

nightmare

noun

a very frightening and unpleasant dream

wet dream

noun

a dream involving sex that causes a man to ejaculate while he is sleeping

vocal fry

a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence

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dray

a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer

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conflict mineral

a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons

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