Definition of "stertorous" []

• Sounding like snoring or snorting. (adjective)

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• "Taurus Antinor's breath came in short, stertorous gasps, his throat was parched and his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth."
• "Now his breathing was what doctors call stertorous, heavy and oppressed."
• "The last flask was opened, and we drank it between us, to the accompaniment of Scotty's stertorous breathing."