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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.

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  • noun Plural form of night terror.

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