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n. - Walking by a person who is asleep.

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Usage examples (7)
  • It appears from hence, that reverie is a disease of the epileptic or cataleptic kind, since the paroxysms of this young lady always began and frequently terminated with...
  • The goal of propaganda is not to wake us up but to put us to sleep -- whether that is the cozy somnambulation of shopping or the paranoid and violent sleep of the...
  • "Where was government regulation before this crisis was happening?" he asks Markey, who is too good a guy to come back with "Enjoying a media-enabled period of extended...
  • This mental effort is termed reverie, or somnambulation, and is described more at large in
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