Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To walk or perform other motor acts while asleep; somnambulate.
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- verb intransitive To walk and/or perform other actions while sleeping; to
somnambulate .
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- verb walk in one's sleep
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Huggins wasn't sure what the past tense of the word "sleepwalk" is, just that it described his team's first-half performance.
Brownsville Herald : 2010
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Rather than sleepwalk in a stupor, God wants us to enjoy what has been given to us at birth.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Their claim -- Gatz took the ambien, under its influence drank the vodka, then continued to sleepwalk into the driver's seat of his car.
Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Alcohol and Sleeping Pills: The 'Perfect' Night's Sleep? M.D. Matthew Edlund 2011
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Swap out an actor who would have to do some work for a guy that will sleepwalk through the role.
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Whereas some would take a more somnambulist approach, just shrugging the shoulders and thinking how this could be yet another direct to DVD kind of film and sleepwalk through making a trailer for this movie, this trailer embraces its badness in a way that feels like the spirit of Lloyd Kaufman extends well beyond the viscous halls of Troma Entertainment.
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Their claim -- Gatz took the ambien, under its influence drank the vodka, then continued to sleepwalk into the driver's seat of his car.
Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Alcohol and Sleeping Pills: The 'Perfect' Night's Sleep? M.D. Matthew Edlund 2011
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If a failure to face up to the need to raise taxes is coupled to a failure to devise credible savings, the US will sleepwalk into a spiral in which debt interest gobbles up ever more of its resources.
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Their claim -- Gatz took the ambien, under its influence drank the vodka, then continued to sleepwalk into the driver's seat of his car.
Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Alcohol and Sleeping Pills: The 'Perfect' Night's Sleep? M.D. Matthew Edlund 2011
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A mother reaches around the baby strapped on her chest to scoop up beads marked VINTAGE, V for the vast enchanted who sleepwalk through the fair, lifting tongs forged by a local smith, as though to salvage from a great fire icons of a past flimsy as a chain of paper dolls, bare as a brass fist with a missing flagpole.
Antiques Fair 2010
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Their claim -- Gatz took the ambien, under its influence drank the vodka, then continued to sleepwalk into the driver's seat of his car.
Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Alcohol and Sleeping Pills: The 'Perfect' Night's Sleep? M.D. Matthew Edlund 2011
wackyvorlon commented on the word sleepwalk
See also somnambulant.
September 24, 2008