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SOMNAMBULATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does somnambulate mean?
• SOMNAMBULATE (verb)
The verb SOMNAMBULATE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SOMNAMBULATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they somnambulate
... he / she / it somnambulates

Past simple: somnambulated

Past participle: somnambulated

-ing form: somnambulating





Past simple: somnambulated


Past participle: somnambulated


-ing form: somnambulating


Sense 1
Meaning:
Walk in one's sleep
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
sleepwalk; somnambulate
Hypernyms (to "somnambulate" is one way to...):
walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue somnambulate
Derivation:
somnambulation (walking by a person who is asleep)
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