Meaning

3 senses
  1. (informal)To sleep.

    breathe noisily during one's sleep

  2. (informal)To snore loudly.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see saw, logs.

Origin

Snoring is supposed to resemble the sound of wood being sawn up.

Snoring is supposed to resemble the sound of wood being sawn up.

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Forms

saws logs, sawing logs, sawed logs, sawed logs
Base formsaw logs · to saw logs
3rd person singularsaws logs
Present participlesawing logs
Past simplesawed logs
Past participlesawed logs / sawn logs

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysaw logs
he, she, itsaws logs

Past simpleLesson

all personssawed logs

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sawed logs
he, she, ithas sawed logs

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill saw logs

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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