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# snoring

«snoring» in Mova's school dictionary: **the loud, rough sound some people and animals make when…** — 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

noun (snoring, uncountable); verb, -ing form of snore (snore, snores, snored, snoring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Snoring is the loud, rough sound some people and animals make when they breathe while asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snoring/#m1)

2) Snoring (verb) means making that sound right now. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snoring/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it is often funny: a giant or grandpa snoring loudly. In health lessons, snoring happens when air shakes soft parts in the throat and nose; a cold can make you snore. Phrases: «loud snoring», «snoring away», «stop snoring».

### examples

- Grandpa was snoring in his armchair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snoring/#x1)
- I could hear Dad's snoring through the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snoring/#x2)
- The dog lay by the fire, snoring softly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snoring/#x3)
- His snoring kept the whole tent awake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snoring/#x4)
- A blocked nose can cause snoring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snoring/#x5)
- The giant was snoring so loudly that the trees shook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snoring/#x6)
- Stop snoring and roll over! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snoring/#x7)
- After that she lay down and was soon snoring loudly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snoring/#x8)

### note

As a noun, uncountable: «his snoring». As a verb, drop the e of snore before -ing: «snore → snoring». A person who snores is a «snorer». In comics, snoring is often written «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 «snoring» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snoring/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.