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Meanings of insomniac in English

Catalan
insomne
Spanish
persona sin sueño

Someone who cannot sleep.

        insomne

        Experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness.

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              Usage of insomniac in English
              1
              Every insomniac knows the rule that a partner steals the sleep from you.
              Masked
              2
              With the days and insomniac nights, Bellis' numbness began to ebb.
              The Scar
              3
              I used to do insomnia jokes; my first novel is about an insomniac.
              The Guardian
              4
              Lose the insomniac vote, Mr. Roosevelt, and you may well loose the nation.
              The new yorker
              5
              I'm a bit insomniac, which I always put down to working the nights.
              Independent.ie
              6
              An insomniac sparrow passing over an amusement park of a July Fourth evening?
              The Great Book of Amber
              7
              Reacher was no kind of an insomniac, but he didn't feel like sleep.
              Nothing to lose
              8
              Ross, an insomniac, had slept like a baby after seeing Lia.
              Second glance
              9
              And Zack was now, at the ripe old age of eleven, an insomniac.
              The strain
              10
              Somehow unsurprisingly, Vladimir Nabokov was an insomniac, and so woke regularly from his dreams.
              The Irish Times
              11
              He sank back into an insomniac silence, his mind wandering to some distant region.
              Blind willow, sleeping woman
              12
              There's even a travel one, in case there's a wandering bibliophile insomniac on your list.
              The Irish Times
              13
              And the emails continue to flood in with advice for our insomniac friend from Scotland.
              The Guardian
              14
              It will send me to sleep and I'm no insomniac at the best of times.
              The Guardian
              15
              He said it was insomniac rationality that produces monsters.
              The Guardian
              16
              Even if you aren't a diagnosed insomniac, you will benefit from the Sleep Foundation suggestions.
              The game on! diet: kick your friend's butt while shrinking your ...
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              Catalan
              insomne
              Insomniac through the time