MEANING
To walk while asleep.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- somnambulate at night
- a somnambulating sleeper
On the page
She had somnambulated as far as the landing without waking.
The witness said he somnambulated, not that he remembered the journey.
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Word forms
- Base
- somnambulate
- Past tense
- somnambulated
- Past participle
- somnambulated
- Present participle
- somnambulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- somnambulate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are somnambulating
- Present perfect
- have/has somnambulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been somnambulating
- Past
- somnambulated
- Past continuous
- was/were somnambulating
- Past perfect
- had somnambulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been somnambulating
- Future
- will somnambulate
- Future continuous
- will be somnambulating
- Future perfect
- will have somnambulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been somnambulating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: somnambulate; somnambulates; somnambulated; somnambulated; somnambulating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: somnambulates.
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