Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.
- n. The act or an instance of snoring.
- n. The noise so produced.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To breathe with a rough, hoarse noise in sleep; breathe noisily through the nose and open mouth while sleeping. The noise is sometimes made at the glottis, the vocal chorda being approximated, but somewhat loose; while the very loud and rattling inspiratory noise often developed is due to the vibrations of the soft palate.
- To spend in snoring, or otherwise affect by snoring, the particular effect or influence being defined by a word or words following.
- n. A breathing with a harsh noise through the nose and mouth in sleep; especially, a single respiration of this kind. See snore, v. i.
Wiktionary
- v. To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.
- n. The act of snoring, and the noise produced.
- n. informal An extremely boring person or event.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep.
- n. A harsh nasal noise made in sleep.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the rattling noise produced when snoring
- n. the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound
- v. breathe noisily during one's sleep
Etymologies
- from Middle English snoren, akin to Middle Low German snorren 'to drone' (Wiktionary)
- Middle English snoren, to snort, from fnoren, from Old English fnora, sneezing; see pneu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Madam raised her voice in saying this, and nodded significantly; but a mild snore from the other room seemed to assure her that it was a waste of shot to fire in that direction.”
“Depending on the age, as many as 12 percent of children may snore, which isn't necessarily a concern.”
“She says that I make more noise than an aeroplane when I snore, which is not true.”
Tears Of The Giraffe
“His snore was a medley of snuffing and snorting, with an abortive demi-semi aristocratic sort of a sneeze; while to add to the effect of this three-stringed inspiration there was in each aspiration a tremulous and swooning neigh.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
“If it shall interest the general reader, and call snore attention to the welfare of seamen, or give any information as to their real condition which may serve to raise them in the rank of beings, and to promote in any measure their religous and moral improvement, and diminish the hardships of their daily life, the end of its publication will be answered.”
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
“His speech was followed by an uproar of applause, as its patriotism and self-devotion unquestionably deserved; and the shouts and clapping of hands would have been greatly prolonged, had they not been rendered quite inaudible by a deep respiration, vulgarly called a snore, from the sleeping Hercules.”
“When oxygen levels drop people with apnea stop breathing for long periods -- the snore is a kind of gasp for air, the bear's robot arm reaches around and tickles its user's face, so that the user rolls onto his side, where breathing is less labored.”
“And just who wouldn't, after hearing the same, boring, three-word story, begin to "snore"?”
“Set volume to "snore" and there you have it - we sleep... together.”
“An actual demonstration would have been required to make him understand what a "snore" was, and then he might have misinterpreted it into an attempt to work some "magic" on him.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snore’.
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 more...
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snose words
Words that relate to the nose, particularly those that begin with sn-
sniff, sneer, snub, sneeze, snarl, snort, snide, snout, snob, snooze, snot, snore and 11 more...
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onomatopoeias
words that sound like they sound.
beep, honk, hiccup, purr, crash, zip, snore, dhak dhak, poomp, awooga, zmurck, noogle and 3 more...
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words I heard while watching TV
Words I heard while watching TV. Could be anything.
necromonger, dude, the valley, the a.m., slick, nsaids, the matrix, the dude, bay area, neproxin, nsaids, renewal and 28 more...
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Resident Pipsiculturalist Makes Huge ...
See comments on pipsiculture and homosexuality, which have nothing to do with each other except that I read comments on them at around the same time on the same day.
See also the list ...heterosexuality, homosexuality, agriculture, argumentative, that, article, thus, make, do, the, interesting, like and 106 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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silly words
funny words..
discombobulate, ishcombibble, regafimaninababiv, snore, popple, ingrown butthair
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Enter Sandman
So... tired.
sleepy, tired, exhausted, weary, worn, dark, unconscious, rest, drowsy, lethargic, somnolent, yawn and 15 more...
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Snoring
Words associated with snoring
apnea, sleep, pharynx, throat, snore, breathing, blockage, loud, heavy, night, nose, nasal and 3 more...
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Lungodly
Words for the respirationist.
vaporizer, bronchitis, apnea, quackle, aluminosis, toke, valsalva maneuver, asthma, ventilation, hiccup, cough, snore and 62 more...
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Weekly list
spendthrift, cheapskate, tightwad, generous, stingy, frugal, thrifty, saddle, slope, litter, snore, postpone and 3 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for snore.
sonofgroucho One of my many faults.... Apr 30, 2007