snored; snoring
: to breathe during sleep with a rough hoarse noise due to vibration of the soft palate
: to spend (time) in snoring or sleeping
snorer
noun
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Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2024
But by the morning before the primary the novelty had worn off, and the van was silent on the way to the candidate’s first event in Franklin, save for an anonymous reporter’s baroque snoring.
—Kyle Paoletta, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
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Verb
People who don’t know what someone’s snoring sounds like can mistake the death rattle for a sign that the person is sleeping peacefully, said Raville, of the Harm Reduction Action Center.
—Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2024
But by the morning before the primary the novelty had worn off, and the van was silent on the way to the candidate’s first event in Franklin, save for an anonymous reporter’s baroque snoring.
—Kyle Paoletta, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
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“Snore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snore. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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snore
1 of 2 intransitive verb
snored; snoring
: to breathe during sleep with a rough hoarse noise due to vibration of the soft palate
snore
2 of 2 noun1
: an act of snoring
2
: a noise of snoring
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