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snoring

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈsnɔːɹɪŋ//

The action or sound of breathing during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.

noun

  1. 1

    The action or sound of breathing during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.

    His snoring was so loud that it woke the neighbors.

    Then he asked if anyone wanted to dispute this assertion (he brandishing his revolver the while) and was answered by peaceful snorings.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of snorepresent participle and gerund of snore

Forms

plural
snorings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).