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SNORING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of snoring or producing a snoring sound
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("snoring" is a kind of...):
breathing; external respiration; respiration; ventilation (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)
Derivation:
snore (breathe noisily during one's sleep)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb snore
Context examples:
There were eight of them,—the two watches below,—and the air was thick with the warmth and odour of their breathing, and the ear was filled with the noise of their snoring and of their sighs and half-groans, tokens plain of the rest of the animal-man.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Even when we finally retired for the night, the inevitable Miss Gryce was still my companion: we had only a short end of candle in our candlestick, and I dreaded lest she should talk till it was all burnt out; fortunately, however, the heavy supper she had eaten produced a soporific effect: she was already snoring before I had finished undressing.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All went right, and the groom lay snoring with his hand upon the golden saddle.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It was a stone-flagged room upon the second floor, with a bed in a recess for him, and two smaller pallets on the other side, on which Aylward and Hordle John were already snoring.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself: “How the old woman is snoring! I must just see if she wants anything.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
When they came to the stairs, the soldier ran on before the princesses, and laid himself down; and as the twelve sisters slowly came up very much tired, they heard him snoring in his bed; so they said, Now all is quite safe; then they undressed themselves, put away their fine clothes, pulled off their shoes, and went to bed.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
You must go straight on till you come to the castle where the horse stands in his stall: by his side will lie the groom fast asleep and snoring: take away the horse quietly, but be sure to put the old leathern saddle upon him, and not the golden one that is close by it.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Then I will try my skill, said the thief, and went and stole her away from under the dragon, so quietly and gently that the beast did not know it, but went on snoring.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
In the morning came the fox again and met him as he was beginning his journey, and said, Go straight forward, till you come to a castle, before which lie a whole troop of soldiers fast asleep and snoring: take no notice of them, but go into the castle and pass on and on till you come to a room, where the golden bird sits in a wooden cage; close by it stands a beautiful golden cage; but do not try to take the bird out of the shabby cage and put it into the handsome one, otherwise you will repent it.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
