cough

Speech parts

1. cough - Noun

2. cough - Verb

Meaning

To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.

To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.

A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

coughing hawk croup pant babble sneeze broadcast cold tell declare bark leak spill disclose confess

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Antonyms

bellow cache bury murmur mumble holler

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Hypernyms

symptom expectorate spit out spit up cough up cough out

Hyponyms

hawk hack whoop clear the throat

Phrases with the word

smoker's cough cough suppressant cough plant have a cough soften someone's cough cough and drag

Derivatives

coughed coughing

Anagrams

gouch

Examples

Love and a cough cannot be hid. George Herbert

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. Barbra Streisand

I do not cough for my own amusement. Jane Austen

Even fleas want to cough. Corsican Proverb

When at a loss how to go on, cough. Greek Proverb

Love and a cough cannot be hidden. Japanese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

cougarish cougarlike cougarness cough abater cough aid cough alleviator