Stertorously
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈstÉ™Ë.təɹ.É™s.li/
- US IPA: /ˈstÉ.tÉš.É™s.li/
Origin
From stertorous + -ly.
Full definition of stertorously
Adverb
stertorously
- 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.