Definition 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.

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Homophones of Cough