sleep-eat

Definitions

To eat in one's sleep; to eat while asleep.

intransitive

Examples

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

“"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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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