Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of walking or performing another activity associated with wakefulness while asleep or in a sleeplike state.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Somnambulism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Walking in one's sleep.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of walking while not
conscious or aware of it. - verb Present participle of
sleepwalk .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun walking by a person who is asleep
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Examples
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The word sleepwalking does well to be an oxymoron, a combining of two incompatibles, for to walk while you sleep is to go against nature.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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The word sleepwalking does well to be an oxymoron, a combining of two incompatibles, for to walk while you sleep is to go against nature.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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A study by Travelodge found a seven-fold increase in sleepwalking customers in the past year, to more than 400 cases — almost all of them men.
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The Jews of Budapest have been described as sleepwalking towards a terrible fate.
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Patients who are not just sleepwalking, which is what that statement talks about, or sleep - eating.
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What other kinds of things do you see in patients who are not just sleepwalking, which is what that statement talks about, but sleep-eating?
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For while my reason told me that I had been the intruder, my intuition continued to insist that my sleepwalking was a result, not a cause.
The Confession Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Some psychologists call sleepwalking an extreme form of absent-mindedness.
Modern Mechanix 2009
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The Federal Health Department has received 16 separate reports of odd "sleepwalking" behaviour caused by the drug Stilnox, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Boing Boing 2007
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Obama were 4k v. 12k; what kind of sleepwalking is required to get 400% increase instead of 200% increase?
Reduce Government Beaurocracy! Steven Barnes 2009
dailyword commented on the word sleepwalking
Artie claims he does this when he eats late.
October 24, 2012