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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
asthmatic, brassy, brazen, breathing, choked, coarse, cracked, croaking, croaky, dry, errhine, expiratory, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, heaving, hoarse, huffing, husky, inspiratory, metallic, nasal, panting, pneumonic, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, ragged, raucid, raucous, respiratory, rhinal, rough, roupy, rude, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, squawking, squawky, sternutatory, strangled, thick, throaty, tinny, wheezing, wheezy
Dictionary Results for stertorous:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
stertorous
    adj 1: of breathing having a heavy snoring sound

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stertorous \Ster"to*rous\ (st[~e]r"t[-o]*r[u^]s), a. [L.
   stertere to snore: cf. F. stertoreux.]
   Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompanies
   inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence,
   hoarsely breathing; snoring.
   [1913 Webster]

         Burning, stertorous breath that hurt her cheek. --Mrs.
                                                  Browning.
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         The day has ebbed away, and it is night in his room,
         before his stertorous breathing lulls.   --Dickens.
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