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The Meaning of cough

  • (v. i.) To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.
  • (v. t.) To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.
  • (v. t.) To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.

Synonyms

coughing , expectorate , cough up , cough out , spit up , spit out

Homophones

coff , koph , qoph

Rhymes

asaf , bake-off , baraff , beloff , blastoff , boff , castoff , checkoff , christophe , croff , cutoff , doff , drop-off , falloff , goff , gorbachev , gough , groff , haaf , hauf , hauff , hof , hoff , joffe , khrushchev , kickoff , knauf , knockoff , knopf , koff , lauf , layoff , leadoff , markoff , mcgoff , mof , molotov , off , payoff , pilaf , playoff , poff , quaff , ribicoff , rockoff , roff , roffe , romanoff , romanov , rudolf , runoff , saratov , schaaf , schoff , schroff , scoff , selloff , shernoff , shicoff , shroff , skoff , standoff , stauff , stoff , stroganoff , taaffe , takeoff , tradeoff , trough , turnoff