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sleepwriting

sleepwriting is the present participle and gerund of sleepwrite.

Meaning of sleepwrite

Verb

sleepwrite (third-person singular simple present sleepwrites, present participle sleepwriting, simple past sleepwrote, past participle sleepwritten)

  1. (rare) To write in one's sleep.
    • At first it seemed like a very painless way to get my work done and I told Milly to let me sleepwrite as much as I liked. We discovered, however, that although my subconscious might lead me to the typewriter, it couldn't make me think.1952, Morris McNeil Musselman, Second Honeymoon, page 5

Questions about sleepwriting

What is sleepwriting the present participle and gerund of?
Sleepwriting is the present participle and gerund of sleepwrite.

Words near sleepwriting in the dictionary

  1. sleepwear
  2. sleepwise
  3. sleepwort
  4. sleepwrite
  5. sleepwrites
  6. sleepwriting
  7. sleepwritten
  8. sleepwrote
  9. sleepy
  10. sleepy catchfly
  11. sleepy cod

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sleepwriting (page history and authors); sleepwrite (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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