SNORE


Meaning of SNORE in English

snore /snɔː $ snɔːr/ BrE AmE verb [intransitive]

[ Date: 1300-1400 ; Origin: From the sound ]

to breathe in a noisy way through your mouth and nose while you are asleep:

He could hear the old man snoring.

—snore noun [countable] :

I heard a snore and knew he’d fallen asleep.

—snorer noun [countable]

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THESAURUS

▪ breathe [intransitive and transitive] to take air into your lungs and send it out again:

Mary knew he was asleep because he was breathing deeply.

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He breathed the clear spring air.

▪ sigh to breathe out slowly and make a noise that shows you are disappointed, tired, ↑ relieved etc:

She just sighed and shook her head.

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‘Never mind,’ he sighed. ‘I’m sure there’ll be other opportunities.’

▪ pant to breathe quickly and noisily through your mouth, because you have been using a lot of effort:

They were panting by the time they got to the finish line.

▪ gasp to breathe very quickly and deeply and with difficulty:

Her eyes were wide, and she was gasping for breath.

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‘Do you think you can walk?’ ‘I’ll try to,’ he gasped.

▪ snore to breathe noisily while you are sleeping:

I couldn’t sleep because my husband was snoring.

▪ wheeze to breathe with difficulty, making a noise in your throat and chest, because you are ill:

His asthma was making him wheeze.

▪ be out of breath to be unable to breathe easily, especially because you have been running or doing other exercise:

I was out of breath by the time we reached the top of the hill.

▪ be short of breath to be unable to breathe easily, especially because you are unhealthy:

Because she was so overweight, she was often short of breath.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.