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sleep-ate

sleep-ate is the simple past of sleep-eat.

Meaning of sleep-eat

Verb

sleep-eat (third-person singular simple present sleep-eats, present participle sleep-eating, simple past sleep-ate, past participle sleep-eaten)

  1. (intransitive) To eat in one's sleep; to eat while asleep.
    • Females are more than twice as likely as males to sleep-eat.2008, Don H. Hockenbury, Sandra E. Hockenbury, Psychology, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 165

Questions about sleep-ate

What is sleep-ate the simple past of?
Sleep-ate is the simple past of sleep-eat.

Words near sleep-ate in the dictionary

  1. sleep with
  2. sleep with one eye open
  3. sleep with one's fathers
  4. sleep with the fishes
  5. sleep-at-noon
  6. sleep-ate
  7. sleep-deprived
  8. sleep-drunk
  9. sleep-eat
  10. sleep-eaten
  11. sleep-eating

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