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stertorous
[ stur-ter-uhs ]
stertorous
/ ˈstɜːtərəs /
adjective
- marked or accompanied by heavy snoring
- breathing in this way
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Derived Forms
- ˈstertorousness, noun
- ˈstertorously, adverb
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Other Words From
- sterto·rous·ly adverb
- sterto·rous·ness noun
- post·sterto·rous adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stertorous1
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Example Sentences
A series of low, stertorous growls followed, growls that made my blood run cold!
Mayo, when he heard their stertorous breathing close at hand, groped for them and shoved tools into their clutch.
There was a dead silence for a few moments, broken only by the stertorous breathing of the man upon the couch.
It, too, was empty, except for a figure breathing with drunken and stertorous stupor in a chair at one corner.
Tom's breathing became stertorous, and that, in connection with morphia poisoning, means danger.
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