Word.ws English Dictionary

sleepwalk

sleepwalk verb: to walk or perform other actions while sleeping; to somnambulate.

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.
    • They're trying to sleepwalk past their health problems.

sleepwalk meaning in Kannada

sleepwalk in Kannada

ಒರಕು ನಡೆತ

Examples of sleepwalk in a sentence

  • Sleeping in an unfamiliar room can be a trigger for sleepwalking.
  • It's a real staggerer how he got out of the window and onto the roof while sleepwalking.
  • You have the one-world state of the Antichrist, or we’re sleepwalking toward Armageddon.

All 10 example sentences with sleepwalk

Forms of sleepwalk

third-person singular presentsleepwalks
present participlesleepwalking
past participlesleepwalked
pastsleepwalked

Past tense of sleepwalk: sleepwalked

Origin of sleepwalk

From sleep + walk.

Words formed from sleepwalk

Questions about sleepwalk

What does sleepwalk mean?
Sleepwalk means to walk or perform other actions while sleeping; to somnambulate.
What is sleepwalk in Kannada?
Sleepwalk in Kannada is ಒರಕು ನಡೆತ. See Sleepwalk meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is sleepwalk?
Sleepwalk is a verb.
What is the past tense of sleepwalk?
The past tense of sleepwalk is sleepwalked.

Words near sleepwalk in the dictionary

  1. sleepunder
  2. sleepunders
  3. sleepwaker
  4. sleepwakers
  5. sleepwaking
  6. sleepwalk
  7. sleepwalked
  8. sleepwalker
  9. sleepwalkers
  10. sleepwalking
  11. sleepwalkings

Source and license

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

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sleepwalk.wav.

Cite this entry: “sleepwalk.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sleepwalk. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.