incubus
- n a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women
- n a situation resembling a terrifying dream
- n someone who depresses or worries others
- One Republican Representative denounced Johnson as "an ungrateful, despicable, besotted traitorous man--an incubus.
- It hung over the incoming crop, an imminent incubus.
- But the long precedent persistent dyspepsia, which had made nutrition insufficient for "his active life, had been an incubus to his strength.