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SNORE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of snoring or producing a snoring sound

Synonyms:

snore; snoring; stertor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("snore" is a kind of...):

breathing; external respiration; respiration; ventilation (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)

Derivation:

snore (breathe noisily during one's sleep)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The rattling noise produced when snoring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("snore" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

snore (breathe noisily during one's sleep)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Breathe noisily during one's sleep

Example:

she complained that her husband snores

Synonyms:

saw logs; saw wood; snore

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "snore" is one way to...):

breathe; respire; suspire; take a breath (draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs)

"Snore" entails doing...:

catch some Z's; kip; log Z's; sleep; slumber (be asleep)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

snore (the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound)

snore (the rattling noise produced when snoring)

snorer (someone who snores while sleeping)

snoring (the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound)

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 Context examples: 

He himself slept peacefully and snored aloud, yet my heart was sore for him, wicked as he was, to think on the dark perils that environed and the shameful gibbet that awaited him.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In the light room, Dora blushing looked so lovely, that I could not tear myself away, but sat there staring, in a dream, until the snoring of Mr. Spenlow inspired me with sufficient consciousness to take my leave.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Even when we finally retired for the night, the inevitable Miss Gryce was still my companion: we had only a short end of candle in our candlestick, and I dreaded lest she should talk till it was all burnt out; fortunately, however, the heavy supper she had eaten produced a soporific effect: she was already snoring before I had finished undressing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They lay sleeping under a tree, and snored so that the branches waved up and down.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And even as they eased him down upon the blankets his snores were rising on the frosty air.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Lord John lay silent, wrapped in the South American poncho which he wore, while Challenger snored with a roll and rattle which reverberated through the woods.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is not a pleasant noise in itself, and I have often complained of it at other times, but just then it was like music to hear my friends snoring together so loud and peaceful in their sleep.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There were eight of them,—the two watches below,—and the air was thick with the warmth and odour of their breathing, and the ear was filled with the noise of their snoring and of their sighs and half-groans, tokens plain of the rest of the animal-man.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was a stone-flagged room upon the second floor, with a bed in a recess for him, and two smaller pallets on the other side, on which Aylward and Hordle John were already snoring.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Gryce snored at last; she was a heavy Welshwoman, and till now her habitual nasal strains had never been regarded by me in any other light than as a nuisance; to-night I hailed the first deep notes with satisfaction; I was debarrassed of interruption; my half-effaced thought instantly revived.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)