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Definition of
sleeping sickness noun
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
sleeping sickness
noun
noun
[
uncountable
]
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a tropical disease carried by the
tsetse fly
that causes a feeling of wanting to go to sleep and usually causes death
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sleeping sickness
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