Meaning

To sleepwalk; to somnambulate..

Definitions by Sense

1. To sleepwalk; to somnambulate.
2. To put into a sleeplike or trancelike state.

Example Sentences

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 more like a spirit or an angel than a human being.

If a German who had acquired English should somnambulize, he would inevitably fall back upon the speech which he learned from his mother's lips, and to which his organs and his interior thought had always been attuned.

The mind is conscious of its own activity even if the person is not. It is constantly active and traces of its activity will most likely remain stored, even if people who dream or somnambulize are not aware of it when fully awake.

Physicians somnambulize their patients and extract teeth literally without pain.

First, the development of antipsychotic, neuroleptic drugs enabled medicine to stabilize (or somnambulize) mental patients outside the confines of institutions.

Prolonged testimony from an expert witness using scientific abstractions and complex fact patterns will somnambulize most jurors.

Word Forms

• somnambulizes
• somnambulizing
• somnambulized
• somnambulise

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When Should You Use Somnambulize?

Use somnambulize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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