sleepwalk

English

Etymology

sleep + walk

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To walk and/or perform other actions while sleeping; to somnambulate.
    • 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
      Government... unions... industry... we have had enough. We - no, YOU - are sleepwalking the rest of us towards a less busy, less relevant industry with a smaller workforce, fewer passengers, fading importance, declining investment, poorly-paid jobs, and a truly shambolic reputation.

Usage notes

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

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