stertorously
English
editEtymology
editFrom stertorous + -ly.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editstertorously (comparative more stertorously, superlative most stertorously)
- With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 28, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
- The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that he had suffered some terrible injury.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind[1]:
- 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, chapter 20, in Last of the Gaderene:
- Captain 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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editTranslations
editwith heavy breathing, as if snoring