"toss and turn" meaning in English

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Verb

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), vrida och vända (Swedish), ꠌꠣꠐꠤꠀꠘꠤ (saṭiani) (Sylheti)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for toss and turn meaning in English (3.2kB)

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