sleepwalk

Thân thiện

A child sleepwalks down the hallway at night.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To walk while asleep: To perform the act of walking or other complex behaviors while in a state of sleep, typically during a stage of deep sleep. This is a specific type of parasomnia.

Usage

• The verb "sleepwalk" describes an involuntary action. It is typically used in the simple past or present perfect tenses to describe a specific incident.
• It is an intransitive verb; it does not take a direct object. You cannot "sleepwalk something."
• Example:

Examples

• Verb:
  • The doctor said some children sleepwalk during deep sleep.
  • Last night, I sleepwalked into the kitchen without waking up.
  • She has been known to sleepwalk on rare occasions.

Advanced Usage

• "to sleepwalk through something" (idiomatic): To go through an activity or period in a dazed, unthinking, or unresponsive manner, as if asleep.
  • After the bad news, he just sleepwalked through his workday.
  • The team sleepwalked through the first half of the game.

Variants and Related Words

• Sleepwalker (noun): A person who walks while asleep.
  • The sleepwalker was gently guided back to bed.
• Sleepwalking (noun/gerund): The activity or condition of walking while asleep.
  • Sleepwalking is more common in children than adults.

Synonyms

• Somnambulate (verb): A formal, technical synonym for sleepwalk.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "Like a sleepwalker": Behaving in a slow, dazed, or automatic manner.
  • Exhausted, she moved around the house like a sleepwalker.

Học thuật

Verb

1. walk in one's sleep

Từ đồng nghĩa

• somnambulate