MEANING
1. To force air noisily through the nose, producing a short, rough sound.
2. To express anger, contempt, or disbelief through a rough sound or sharply spoken response.
3. To take a drug into the body by inhaling it through the nose.
Use it for
describing a sudden nasal burst of laughter; showing a horse reacting audibly; giving a physical reaction a rough, involuntary sound; distinguishing a snort from a sustained laughSeparates a nasal burst of sound, a contemptuous response, drug inhalation, and the informal noun for a quick drink. Writing functions: Body language / Contempt.
Words that belong together
- a snort of laughter
- a horse snorts
- snort through one’s nose
On the page
A snort of laughter escaped him before he could cover his mouth.
The horse snorted and backed away from the unfamiliar scent.
“A generous offer?” he snorted. “You are charging us for our own furniture.”
She snorted at the suggestion that the missing page had vanished by accident.
He denied snorting the powder but refused to explain the empty packet.
Word forms
- Base
- snort
- Past tense
- snorted
- Past participle
- snorted
- Present participle
- snorting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- snort
- Present continuous
- am/is/are snorting
- Present perfect
- have/has snorted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been snorting
- Past
- snorted
- Past continuous
- was/were snorting
- Past perfect
- had snorted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been snorting
- Future
- will snort
- Future continuous
- will be snorting
- Future perfect
- will have snorted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been snorting
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Usage notes
Verb and countable noun. Verb: snort; snorts; snorted; snorted; snorting. Noun: a snort; plural snorts. Future: will snort. Speech-introducing use can be transitive. Register: neutral. Commonness: common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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