"toss and turn" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-toss and turn.wav Forms: tosses and turns [present, singular, third-person], tossing and turning [participle, present], tossed and turned [participle, past], tossed and turned [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|toss<> and turn<>}} toss and turn (third-person singular simple present tosses and turns, present participle tossing and turning, simple past and past participle tossed and turned)
  1. To be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position. Categories (topical): Sleep Translations (be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position): remenar-se (Catalan), woelen (Dutch), bylta sér (Icelandic), okeoke (Maori), воро́чаться (voróčatʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), поворо́чаться (povoróčatʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), dar vueltas en la cama (Spanish), revolverse (Spanish), pasar la noche en duermevela (Spanish), pasar la noche en dormivela (Spanish), rodar (Spanish), rolar [Spain] (Spanish), retorcerse (Spanish), escrucarse (Spanish), vrida och vända (Swedish), ꠌꠣꠐꠤꠀꠘꠤ (saṭiani) (Sylheti)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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          "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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          "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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          "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
          "word": "dar vueltas en la cama"
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          "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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          "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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          "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
      "word": "bylta sér"
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      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
      "word": "okeoke"
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      "roman": "voróčatʹsja",
      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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      "word": "воро́чаться"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "povoróčatʹsja",
      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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      "word": "поворо́чаться"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
      "word": "dar vueltas en la cama"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
      "word": "revolverse"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
      "word": "pasar la noche en duermevela"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
      "word": "pasar la noche en dormivela"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
      "word": "rodar"
    },
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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      "word": "rolar"
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      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
      "word": "retorcerse"
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      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
      "word": "escrucarse"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
      "word": "vrida och vända"
    },
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      "code": "syl",
      "lang": "Sylheti",
      "roman": "saṭiani",
      "sense": "be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position",
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