"sleepwalk" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: sleepwalks [present, singular, third-person], sleepwalking [participle, present], sleepwalked [participle, past], sleepwalked [past]
Etymology: sleep + walk Etymology templates: {{compound|en|sleep|walk}} sleep + walk Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Sleep Derived forms: sleepwalker

Inflected forms

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