somnambulizeEtymologyFrom Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulo (“to walk”), + -ize.somnambulize means to sleepwalk; to somnambulate. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.verbTo 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.”To put into a sleeplike or trancelike state.“Physicians somnambulize their patients and extract teeth literally without pain.”