snoring

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: snor=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

snoring, n. 

 The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. It is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

snoring

Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic, asthmatic wheeze, breath, breath of air, breathing, broken wind, cough, effervescent, errhine, exhalation, expiration, expiratory, exsufflation, fizzling, gasp, gulp, hack, heaving, hiccup, hissing, huffing, hushing, inhalation, inhalator, inspiration, inspiratory, insufflation, iron lung, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, nasal, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, panting, pneumonic, puff, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, respiration, respiratory, rhinal, scuba, sibilant, sigh, sissing, sizzling, sneeze, sneezy, sniff, sniffing, sniffle, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snore, snorting, snuff, snuffle, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, sternutation, sternutatory, stertor, stertorous, suspiration, wheeze, wheezing, wheezy, wind