SLEEPWALK

sleepwalk, somnambulate

(verb) walk in one’s sleep

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

sleepwalk (third-person singular simple present sleepwalks, present participle sleepwalking, simple past and past participle sleepwalked)

(intransitive) To walk and/or perform other actions while sleeping; to somnambulate.

Usage notes

Other rare inflected forms, such as sleepswalk, sleptwalk, and sleptwalked, exist, but are nonstandard conjugations.

Source: Wiktionary



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