sleep-eat

present singular third person sleep-eats · participle present sleep-eating · past sleep-ate · participle past sleep-eaten · alternative sleepeat

1. intransitiveTo eat in one's sleep; to eat while asleep.

   Because he was diabetic he'd sleep-eat in bed.

   2015, Kelly Carlin, A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN

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   Females are more than twice as likely as males to sleep-eat.

   2008, Don H. Hockenbury, Sandra E. Hockenbury, Psychology, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 165

   "He's not the only one who needs it. Mom's been sleep-eating." "What? What do you mean?" I listened in disbelief as she said she'd come out into the kitchen no fewer than three times in the last couple of months and seen Betty with her hand in the breadbox.

   2014, Stephan Eirik Clark, Sweetness #9, →ISBN

   Topiramate has been described as being particularly efficacious in people who sleep-eat as their non-REM parasomnia.

   2015, Himender Makker, Matthew Walker, Hugh Selsick, Oxford Case Histories in Sleep Medicine, →ISBN

   I must've done what Liam used to do as a kid: sleep-eat in the middle of the night and deny it in the morning.

   2016, Dima Zales, Anna Zaires, Limbo: The Last Humans: Book 2, Mozaika Publications, →ISBN

   Recent studies showed that some patients experienced sleep-eating, where they would dream about food and in their drugged-induced coma, they would actually get up to prepare a meal.

   2016, Kathie Johnson, The First Storm, AuthorHouse, →ISBN