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# snore

«snore» in Mova's school dictionary: **To breathe noisily while asleep, with a rough sound in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (snore, snores, snored, snoring); noun (a snore, snores)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To breathe noisily while asleep, with a rough sound in the nose or throat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snore/#m1)

2) (noun) The sound of snoring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snore/#m2)

3) (informal) «A snore» or «snore-fest» means something very boring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snore/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, Dad snores and keeps everyone awake. In stories, snores show a character is fast asleep (Zzz). In science, snoring happens when air shakes soft parts in the throat. Phrases: snore loudly, a loud snore.

### examples

- Grandpa snores so loudly the windows shake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snore/#x1)
- I heard the dog snore under the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snore/#x2)
- He snored all through the film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snore/#x3)
- That lesson was a snore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snore/#x4)
- A loud snore came from the tent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snore/#x5)
- Do you snore? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snore/#x6)
- Pinocchio snored away happily as if his feet were not his own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snore/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: snored; noun: snoring, snorer. Comics write snoring as «Zzz».

### In the corpora

- [A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreement, or something simple like snoring or a bad back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «snore» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snore/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.