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What does tossing and turning mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of toss and turn
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That helps prevent circulation disturbances and it puts you to sleep relaxed, without tossing and turning.
The darkness was starting to lighten before she dozed, then slept fitfully, tossing and turning.
So will you be tossing and turning the night before the game worried about all those Brazilian forwards?
It took me an hour of tossing and turning that night to fall into a light sleep.
I'm apparently tossing and turning in my uncomfortable sleep, moving here, twisting there.
The effect is quite lovely, our passenger tossing and turning in sleep and dimly overhearing the torch song from his neighbour's headphones.

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