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Snore

verb

(past & past part. snored; pres. part. snoring)

Breathe noisily during one's sleep. Synonyms: saw logs, saw wood.

noun

The rattling noise produced when snoring.

The act of snoring or producing a snoring sound. Synonyms: snoring, stertor.

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"Snore" Quotes from Famous Books

... airship, Thomas Tinkle," I answered him; "a modern wrinkle, just one of many score which were by scientists invented to make the people more contented since you began to snore." ...

— Rippling Rhymes • Walt Mason

... A very gentle one. It is the first time I ever knew a snore exercise a soothing effect on the listener. This is decidedly soporific. It is an invitation to sleep. I accept. The Cathedral clock sounds a carillon. It plays half a tune, too, as if this was all it had learnt up to the present, ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, September 5, 1891 • Various

... I used to come in after the lecture, or perhaps after being out to some dinner, and we liked to sit down and talk it over and tell yarns, and we expected Stoddard to laugh at them, but Stoddard would lie there on the couch and snore. Otherwise, as ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... Snore! Venning yawned, and in five minutes they were both asleep in the forest, without so much as a twig to cover them. But they were not altogether unprotected, for when they rubbed the sleep out of their eyes in the ...

— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville

... all—!" Mr. Iff routed a negligible quibble with an airy flirt of his delicate hand. "Trust me; you'll hardly ever be reminded of my existence—I'm that quiet. And besides, I spend most of my time in the smoking-room. And I don't snore, and I'm never seasick.... By the way," he added anxiously, "do or ...

— The Bandbox • Louis Joseph Vance

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