somnambulize

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To sleepwalk; to somnambulate.
    — If, however, he ceased at that time to somnambulize, he was given to waking dreams, a sort of lethargy and abstraction that became habitual to him, and after the accès was over, his eyes flashed, his lips quivered, his voice was tremulous with emotion, a sort of ecstacy came over him, and he talked more like a spirit or an angel than a human being.
  2. To put into a sleeplike or trancelike state.
    — Physicians somnambulize their patients and extract teeth literally without pain.

词形变化

somnambulizes present,singular,third-person somnambulizing participle,present somnambulized participle,past somnambulized past somnambulise alternative

词源

From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulo (“to walk”), + -ize.
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