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sleepmarch en · VERB

Etymology

From sleep + march.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To sleep while marching, having fallen asleep while marching.
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To perform actions without being aware of them, especially with militaristic or at least goal-oriented overtones.
   • There’s lots of upheaval, confusion and lies: once again, we’re sleepmarching to war. 2019, “When the lion lies down with the lamb”performed by Global Village Bard:
   • Above the shivering tenements of terror— rough blankets over legions sleepmarching into the night of time, like clacking teeth in the mouth of the universe, 2015, Dimitri Van den Meerssche, “Calling Themis”, in The European Journal of International Law (EJIL), volume 26, number 1, page 310:
   • As long as the young are willing to accept the prevailing simple-minded mythology about America, Corporate Empire will remain safe and sound asleep even as we go sleepmarching off to war in the Middle East to secure "our" oil. 1986 February, Vic Sadot, Broadside: The National Topic Song Magazine, number 170, Broadside, LTD.:

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