SNORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snore mean? 

• SNORE (noun)
  The noun SNORE has 2 senses:

1. the rattling noise produced when snoring

2. the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound

  Familiarity information: SNORE used as a noun is rare.

• SNORE (verb)
  The verb SNORE has 1 sense:

1. breathe noisily during one's sleep

  Familiarity information: SNORE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNORE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of snoring or producing a snoring sound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

snore; snoring; stertor

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)

• SNORE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they snore    ... he / she / it snores   
Past simple: snored   
Past participle: snored   
-ing form: snoring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Breathe noisily during one's sleep

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

saw logs; saw wood; snore

Context example:

she complained that her husband snores

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)

 Context examples 

When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In the corner a very fat man was lying all a-sprawl upon a truss, snoring stertorously, and evidently in the last stage of drunkenness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Clinical signs include snoring, insomnia or hypersomnia, difficulty concentrating and fatigue.

(Central Sleep Apnea Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

“Her husband lies snoring on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates of Mr. Rucastle’s.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the morning Henry renewed the fire and cooked breakfast to the accompaniment of his partner's snoring.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was something between a snore and a growl, low, deep, and exceedingly menacing.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I noted the gurgling forefoot was very like a snore, and as I listened to it the effect of Wolf Larsen’s swift rush from sublime exultation to despair slowly left me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A drunken man, snoring horribly in his breathing, was curled up in the passage, absolutely oblivious to the stream of people who flowed round and occasionally over him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Clinical presentation usually includes snoring, daytime sleepiness, difficulty concentrating and fatigue.

(Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormal disruption of sleep, such as sleep walking, sleep talking, nightmares, bedwetting, sleep apnea (problems with breathing that cause loud snoring), or nighttime seizures.

(Parasomnia, NCI Dictionary)