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sleepwalk

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sleep⋅walk

[sleep-wawk]
–verb (used without object)
1. to engage in sleepwalking.
–noun
2. an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.

Origin:
1920–25; back formation from sleepwalking
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sleep·walk   (slēp'wôk')   
intr.v.   sleep·walked, sleep·walk·ing, sleep·walks
To walk or perform other motor acts while asleep; somnambulate.

[Back-formation from sleepwalking.]
sleep'walk'er n.
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