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from The Century Dictionary.
- Sudden and incomplete waking from sleep (on the part of young children) in a state of confusion and terror.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Med.) A sudden awakening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
night terror .
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