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stertorously en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈstəː.təɹ.əs.li/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈstɝ.tɚ.əs.li/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree English stertorous Middle English -ly English -ly English stertorously From stertorous + -ly.

Meanings

1. With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner.
   • Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic. 2000, Mark Gatiss, chapter 20, in Last of the Gaderene:
   • The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that he had suffered some terrible injury. 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:
   • Mr Lumby said, "Oh well, now the doctor's here you don't want me', and lumbered off, glad to get back to bed. Rita said, "She's in here, doctor', and led the way to the foot of the stairs where Mrs Dibble lay breathing stertorously under the dim shop light, still an abhorrent spectacle to Sadie, who edged gingerly round her and escaped upstairs, having no compunction whatever for Mrs Dibble's injuries 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 26:
   • 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. 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind:

Forms

Relateds

stertor · stertorous

Translations (11)

bg хри́пкаво (with heavy breathing, as if snoring) · cs chroptivě (with heavy breathing, as if snoring) · ru затруднённо (with heavy breathing, as if snoring) · ru хрипя́ще (with heavy breathing, as if snoring) · ru тяжело́ (with heavy breathing, as if snoring) · ru стерторо́зно (with heavy breathing, as if snoring) · sh hroptavo (with heavy breathing, as if snoring) · fi korahdellen (with heavy breathing, as if snoring) · de röchelnd (with heavy breathing, as if snoring) · sh хроптаво (with heavy breathing, as if snoring) · fi koristen (with heavy breathing, as if snoring)