stertorously

From stertorous +‎ -ly.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstəː.təɹ.əs.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɝ.tɚ.əs.li/

stertorously (comparative more stertorously, superlative most stertorously)

1. With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 20

     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:

     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, Last of the Gaderene, chapter 20

     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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