snore

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Why simulate pedaling and an athlete's stamina levels (* snore*), when we could ignore the pedals altogether and steer our way down a mountain path - over jumps, across streams, around tight corners, between trees and through caves?

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  1. intransitive verb To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.
  2. noun The act or an instance of snoring.
  3. noun The noise so produced.

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  • Topping today's medical minute, we learn children who snore are about four times more likely than those who don't to wet the bed. —  RNews - TOP STORIES
  • Anakin: (rolls over) Mmhmh, I'll get it in the morning. * snore* —  GaijinSmash.net
  • Well, actually, I share my bed with two dogs splayed out, dreaming wildly, and two very restless cats that snore -- … —  NewWest.Net All Headlines
  • At least twice there was an impromptu, minor disruption of Obama's voice by some sort of Snuffleupagus half-snore, an attempt to clean out something obviously old and clogged and - dude, gross! —  Forum
  • About the time that we feel sleepy an anecdote arouses us: then the iteration of expletives from the membership succeeds; we see that the owner of the tuning-fork has fallen to sleep in so ingenious an attitude that he would never have been detected but for his snore, and are amused by the fashion one good lady has of slowly wagging her head as she drinks in the discourse. —  Tales of the Chesapeake
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English snoren, to snort, from fnoren, from Old English fnora, sneezing; see pneu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English snoren, from Anglo-Saxon *snorian, snore (later snora, a snoring; cf. fnora, a snoring), = Middle Dutch snorren = Middle Low German snorren, Low German snoren, grumble, mutter; cf. snork, snort, and snar.
  2. from snore, v.
 

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