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stertorous

/stur-ter-uhs/US // ˈstɜr tər əs //UK // (ˈstɜːtərəs) //

严厉的,严格的,严厉,激烈的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by stertor or heavy snoring.
    • : breathing in this manner.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inraucous
as inhoarse

Examples

  • A series of low, stertorous growls followed, growls that made my blood run cold!

  • Mayo, when he heard their stertorous breathing close at hand, groped for them and shoved tools into their clutch.

  • There was a dead silence for a few moments, broken only by the stertorous breathing of the man upon the couch.

  • It, too, was empty, except for a figure breathing with drunken and stertorous stupor in a chair at one corner.

  • Tom's breathing became stertorous, and that, in connection with morphia poisoning, means danger.