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incubus

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɪŋ.kjʊ.bəs/Part of speech nounSorted bcinsuuStarts with IEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women

Word origin

From Late Latin incubus, from Latin incubō (“nightmare, one who lies down on the sleeper”), from incubō (“to lie upon, to hatch”, from in- (“on”) + cubō (“to lie down”)).

Used in a sentence

  • it increaseth fearful dreams, incubus, night-walking, crying out, and much unquietness […] .
  • Again he felt the impulse of flight: but his body was a dry dead incubus that refused to obey his volition.
  • Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.

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