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Meaning of toss and turn | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To be unable to settle into a comfortable sleeping position.

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Examples

“I didn't get a wink of sleep. I was tossing and turning all night long.”
“for, after tossing and turning the greatest part of the night, and tormenting myself with the falsest notions and apprehensions of things, I fell, through mere fatigue, into a kind of delirious doze”

Fanny Hill

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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