sleepwalker
Americannoun
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a person who walks, eats, or performs other motor acts while asleep and is unaware of doing so upon awakening; a person with a disorder characterized by this.
A sleepwalker may do something that could cause injury, such as climbing out of a window or walking into objects.
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a person who acts seemingly without awareness, feeling, aim, or will.
My parents were sleepwalkers, moving about their world as if oblivious to it and to themselves.
Etymology
Origin of sleepwalker
Example Sentences
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“Like a sleepwalker … I know what I have to do,” Crimo narrated in another rap video posted late last year.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2022
It is an aria from Bellini’s opera “La Sonnambula” — the sleepwalker — and the words to that aria are fraught with nostalgia: “Oh remembrance of scenes long vanished . . . where my childhood serenely glided.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2020
The Doctors A divorce attorney shares advice; a sleepwalker falls six stories; Nicole Kidman on eating bugs.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2018
Emma Walton, 25, London: At university I always locked my windows and doors at night I’ve been a sleepwalker my whole life.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2016
He rose, slow as a sleepwalker, and moved to the window.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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