nightmare vs surprise

nightmare

verb
  • To have a 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. 

surprise

verb
  • To undergo or witness something unexpected. 

  • To attack unexpectedly. 

  • To take unawares. 

  • To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise. 

  • To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected. 

  • To cause surprise. 

noun
  • The feeling that something unexpected has happened. 

  • Something unexpected. 

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