beast vs nightmare

beast

noun
  • Something unpleasant and difficult. 

  • Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically. 

  • A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal. 

  • Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones. 

  • Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength. 

  • A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner. 

  • A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. 

  • A sex offender. 

  • A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one. 

verb
  • to engage in sexual intercourse, particularly in an illicit context 

  • to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment. 

adj
  • great; excellent; powerful 

nightmare

noun
  • Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. 

  • A very bad or frightening dream. 

  • A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. 

verb
  • To have a nightmare. 

How often have the words beast and nightmare occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )