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somnambulizing

somnambulizing is the present participle and gerund of somnambulize.

Meaning of somnambulize

Verb

somnambulize (third-person singular simple present somnambulizes, present participle somnambulizing, simple past and past participle somnambulized)

  1. To sleepwalk; to somnambulate.
    • If, however, he ceased at that time to somnambulize, he was given to waking dreams, a sort of lethargy and abstraction that became habitual to him, and after the accès was over, his eyes flashed, his lips quivered, his voice was tremulous with emotion, a sort of ecstacy came over him, and he talked...1847, Thomas Medwin, The life of Percy Bysshe Shelley: in 2 vol - Volume 1, page 34
  2. To put into a sleeplike or trancelike state.
    • Physicians somnambulize their patients and extract teeth literally without pain.1967, Parke Godwin, A Biography of William Cullen Bryant

Questions about somnambulizing

What is somnambulizing the present participle and gerund of?
Somnambulizing is the present participle and gerund of somnambulize.

Words near somnambulizing in the dictionary

  1. somnambulistically
  2. somnambulists
  3. somnambulize
  4. somnambulized
  5. somnambulizes
  6. somnambulizing
  7. somnambulous
  8. Somnath
  9. somner
  10. somners
  11. somnetic

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