Definition of "stertorously" []

• With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner. (adverb)

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• "He breathed stertorously, and in his throat were the queer little gasping noises of one overwrought."
• "Propped up on pillows, he breathed stertorously, his face bluish black."
• "He breathed stertorously, at times grunting and moaning with the pain of his sleep."