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sleep-eating

sleep-eating is the present participle and gerund of sleep-eat.

sleep-eating is the alternative form of sleepeating.

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

Meaning of sleepeating

Noun

sleepeating

  1. The practice or habit of eating in one's sleep; or eating while asleep.

Questions about sleep-eating

What is sleep-eating the present participle and gerund of?
Sleep-eating is the present participle and gerund of sleep-eat.

Words near sleep-eating in the dictionary

  1. sleep-ate
  2. sleep-deprived
  3. sleep-drunk
  4. sleep-eat
  5. sleep-eaten
  6. sleep-eating
  7. sleep-eats
  8. sleep-flower
  9. sleep-flowers
  10. sleep-fuck
  11. sleep-fucked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleep-eating (page history and authors); sleep-eat (page history and authors); sleepeating (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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