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sleepwalker

[ sleep-waw-ker ]

noun

  1. a person who walks, eats, or performs other motor acts while asleep and is unaware of doing so upon awakening; a person with a disorder characterized by this:

    A sleepwalker may do something that could cause injury, such as climbing out of a window or walking into objects.

  2. a person who acts seemingly without awareness, feeling, aim, or will:

    My parents were sleepwalkers, moving about their world as if oblivious to it and to themselves.



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Example Sentences

Later, he describes himself as “a sleepwalker—who turns off the alarm clock.”

Neither was it the face of a dreamer or a sleepwalker, or of the dead, when the lines disappear and life retires.

When at length the candle was lighted, he took it in his hand and went into the parlour like a sleepwalker.

He went about extinguishing the gas as aimlessly and mechanically as a sleepwalker, unaware of the things he was touching.

Emil overtook her and catching her by the shoulders shook her gently, as if he were trying to awaken a sleepwalker.

“This way,” answered Molly, looking indeed like a sleepwalker as she glided down the hall to the main steps.

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