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sleepeat

sleepeat is the alternative form 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

Forms of sleepeat

third-person singular presentsleepeats
present participlesleepeating
pastsleepate
past participlesleepeaten

Origin of sleepeat

From sleep + eat.

Questions about sleepeat

What is sleepeat the alternative form of?
Sleepeat is the alternative form of sleep-eat.

Words near sleepeat in the dictionary

  1. sleepbound
  2. sleepcation
  3. sleepcations
  4. sleepdriving
  5. sleepe
  6. sleepeat
  7. sleepeaten
  8. sleepeater
  9. sleepeaters
  10. sleepeating
  11. sleepeats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleepeat (page history and authors); sleep-eat (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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