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sleepswalks

sleepswalks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sleepwalk.

Meaning of sleepwalk

Verb

sleepwalk (third-person singular simple present sleepwalks, present participle sleepwalking, simple past and past participle sleepwalked)

  1. (intransitive) To walk or perform other actions while sleeping; to somnambulate.
    • Government... unions... industry... we have had enough. We - no, YOU - are sleepwalking the rest of us towards a less busy, less relevant industry with a smaller workforce, fewer passengers, fading importance, declining investment, poorly-paid jobs, and a truly shambolic reputation.2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3
  2. (figuratively, intransitive, transitive) To perform actions without being aware of them; to do something that invites certain results without confronting that possibility.
    • The government is sleepwalking into a crisis.

Questions about sleepswalks

What is sleepswalks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sleepswalks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sleepwalk.

Words near sleepswalks in the dictionary

  1. sleepshirt
  2. sleepshirts
  3. sleepsuit
  4. sleepsuits
  5. sleepswalk
  6. sleepswalks
  7. sleeptalk
  8. sleeptalked
  9. sleeptalker
  10. sleeptalkers
  11. sleeptalking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleepswalks (page history and authors); sleepwalk (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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