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Showing results by Vladimir Nabokov only

to walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition

(adjective) of a kind likely to induce sleep / (adjective) inclined to or heavy with sleep; drowsy / (adjective) sleepy

(adjective) extremely loud

calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation

calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation

(adjective) coolly and patronizingly haughty

fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent (derives from the Greek city Sybaris)

(noun) loss of consciousness resulting from insufficient blood flow to the brain; faint / (noun) the loss of one or more sounds or letters in the interior of a word (as in fo'c'sle for forecastle)

the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion

accorded a great deal of respect, especially because of age, wisdom, or character

(verb) to make faulty or defective; impair / (verb) to debase in moral or aesthetic status / (verb) to make ineffective