nightmare vs tense

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. 

tense

verb
  • To make tense. 

  • To apply a tense to. 

  • To become tense. 

noun
  • Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. 

  • The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. 

  • An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense. 

adj
  • Pulled taut, without any slack. 

  • Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed. 

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