STERTOROUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stertorous mean? 

• STERTOROUS (adjective)
  The adjective STERTOROUS has 1 sense:

1. of breathing having a heavy snoring sound

  Familiarity information: STERTOROUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STERTOROUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of breathing having a heavy snoring sound

Similar:

noisy (full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

For a few moments the breathing continued to be stertorous.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His voice was becoming fainter and his breath more stertorous.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Each instant he seemed as though he would open his eyes and speak; but then would follow a prolonged stertorous breath, and he would relapse into a more fixed insensibility.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And then Lucy's breathing became stertorous again, and all at once it ceased.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was certainly odd that whenever she got into that lethargic state, with the stertorous breathing, she put the flowers from her; but that when she waked she clutched them close.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her breathing grew stertorous, the mouth opened, and the pale gums, drawn back, made the teeth look longer and sharper than ever.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There was no need to think them dead, for their stertorous breathing and the acrid smell of laudanum in the room left no doubt as to their condition.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)