EGAVE

sleepwalker

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A somnambulist; one who walks, or is active, while asleep.
  2. noun One in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep; someone in a hypnotic trance.
  3. noun A person from whom a voodoo practitioner (a bocor) has taken over control of their mind, making them a zombie who must do the bocor's bidding.
  4. noun One who goes though life in a state of obliviousness.

Similar words

somnambulist noctambulist somnambulator sleeptalker noctambule noctambulo somniloquist somnambule sleepyhead nightwalker

Often followed by

in and who is to or she as he

Word family

sleepwalk sleepwalked sleepwalkers sleepwalking sleepwalks

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