Meaning & use
somnambulate
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To walk while asleep; to sleepwalk.
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The character somnambulates through the house every night in the play, unaware of his own actions.
Doctors grew concerned when the child began to somnambulate almost every week.
A note on using this word
A formal or clinical-sounding alternative to 'sleepwalk,' often used in literary or medical writing.
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