Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To walk in sleep; wander in a state of sleep, as a somnambulist.
- To walk on or over in sleep.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To walk when asleep.
WordNet 3.0
- v. walk in one's sleep
Examples
“Most snoring is composed by Beethoven or Wagner, although a few times Wiggs had heard heavy metal rock performed on the somnambulate bassoon.”
“Film writer Molly Haskell said that at the core of Polanski's work is the "image of the anesthetized woman, the beautiful, inarticulate, and possibly even murderous somnambulate.”
“But I never drink and somnambulate, that would be unsafe.”
“As many Americans somnambulate through their existence, they are virtually oblivious and indifferent to the profound human misery which must occur in order for a tiny fraction of humanity to experience the American Dream.”
“I'm a somnambulist, only I somnambulate faster than most people.”
“Two years ago I wrote an article expressing my dismay to see the English people somnambulate off the cliff of passive surrender to hostile Islam:”
“Given the multiple crises we face, the fact that we have this somnambulate election is unreal,"'he said.”
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phrontistery-s
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Discombobulate-enkindled 'ulate' words.
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Detestable words
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zetadiction
words that embody life
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persnickety parlance
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words that are beautiful, whether because of sound, meaning, or both.
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