"sleepwrite" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sleepwrite.wav Forms: sleepwrites [present, singular, third-person], sleepwriting [participle, present], sleepwrote [past], sleepwritten [participle, past]
Etymology: From sleep + write. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|sleep|write}} sleep + write Head templates: {{en-verb|sleepwrites|sleepwriting|sleepwrote|sleepwritten}} sleepwrite (third-person singular simple present sleepwrites, present participle sleepwriting, simple past sleepwrote, past participle sleepwritten)
  1. (rare) To write in one's sleep. Tags: rare Categories (topical): Sleep
    Sense id: en-sleepwrite-en-verb-nOS-s43j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        "(rare) To write in one's sleep."
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