sleepwalk

[sleep-wawk]

verb (used without object)

1. to engage in sleepwalking.

noun

1. an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.

sleepwalk

/ ˈsliːpˌwɔːk /

verb

1. (intr) to walk while asleep See also somnambulism

Other Word Forms

• sleepwalking noun
• sleepwalker noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sleepwalk¹

First recorded in 1920–25; back formation from sleepwalking

Example Sentences

At one point, Foster alleged that he told one executive that “WPP and GroupM have ‘been sleepwalking to the edge of a cliff and people don’t want to hear it.’”

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She must have heard him cry, sleepwalked to the nursery, lifted him out of the crib while she was still asleep, then woke to discover the crib empty.

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The Chargers, whose distinctive look was a nod to the 1970s, were sleepwalking in the first half before coming to life in the second.

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She starts lucid dreaming and sleepwalking, receiving phone calls from beyond — like from their dead mother when she was a teenager beyond.

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The setting is still a Swiss alpine hamlet, but the villagers are all members of some puritanical sect and its sleepwalking heroine, Amina, has longings that transcend its limits.

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