sleepwalkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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sleepwalk (third-person singular simple present sleepwalks, present participle sleepwalking, simple past and past participle sleepwalked)

1. (intransitive) To walk or perform other actions while sleeping; to somnambulate.
   • 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:

     Government... unions... industry... we have had enough. We - no, YOU - are sleepwalking the rest of us towards a less busy, less relevant industry with a smaller workforce, fewer passengers, fading importance, declining investment, poorly-paid jobs, and a truly shambolic reputation.

2. (intransitive, transitive, figurative) To perform actions without being aware of them; to do something that invites certain results without confronting that possibility.

   The government is sleepwalking into a crisis.

   They're trying to sleepwalk past their health problems.

   • 2025 December 11, Joseph Gedeon, quoting Chris Coons, “US lawmakers condemn seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker: ‘Trump is sleepwalking us into a war’”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Chris Coons, a Democratic senator, said he was also alarmed at the administration’s actions, telling the station: “I have no idea why the president is seizing an oil tanker and I’m fairly gravely concerned that he’s sleepwalking us into a war with Venezuela.”

使用する際の注意点

• Other rare inflected forms, such as sleepswalk, sleptwalk, and sleptwalked, exist, but are nonstandard conjugations.

派生語

• sleepwalker

参考

• sleep-eat