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sleepwrite en · VERB

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Etymology

From sleep + write.

Meanings

1. (rare) To write in one's sleep.
   • At first it seemed like a very painless way to get my work done and I told Milly to let me sleepwrite as much as I liked. We discovered, however, that although my subconscious might lead me to the typewriter, it couldn't make me think. 1952, Morris McNeil Musselman, Second Honeymoon, page 5:
   • What a pity one cannot sleepwrite on the ceiling with one's finger or lifted toe. 1984, Denton Welch, Michael De-la-Noy, The journals of Denton Welch, page 260:

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