• Stertorously

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈstəː.təɹ.É™s.li/
    • US IPA: /ˈstɝ.tÉš.É™s.li/

    Origin

    From stertorous + -ly.

    Full definition of stertorously

    Adverb

    stertorously

    1. With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner.
      • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 20The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that he had suffered some terrible injury.
      • 1956, w, Crime out of Mind Chapter 23, He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.
      • 2000, Mark Gatiss, Last of the Gaderene, chapter 20Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.

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