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Definition of "somnambulate" []

  • To walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "somnambulate" in a sentence
  • "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:"
  • "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.""