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verb-intransitive. To expel air from the lungs suddenly and noisily, often to keep the respiratory passages free of irritating material.

verb-intransitive. To make a noise similar to noisy expulsion of air from the lungs: The engine coughed and died.

v. To expel by coughing: coughed up phlegm.

n. The act of coughing.

n. An illness marked by frequent coughing.

phrasal-verb. cough up Slang To hand over or relinquish (money or another possession), often reluctantly.

phrasal-verb. cough up Slang To confess or disclose: When he saw that the police might arrest him, he coughed up the details of what he had seen.

v. To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

v. To make a noise like a cough

n. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

n. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.

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

v. To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up.

v. To bring to a specified state by coughing.

n. 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.

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

To make a more or less violent effort, accompanied with noise, to expel the air from the respiratory organs, and force out any matter that irritates the air-passages, or renders respiration difficult.

To expel from the air-passages by a more or less violent effort with noise and usually with expectoration: followed by up: as, to cough up phlegm.

n. An abrupt and more or less violent and noisy expiration, excited by some irritation of the respiratory organs.

To lay up for; store as in a coffer.

v. exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion

n. a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis

"I knew it when I was 13, i'm * cough, cough* in my 30's now."

ear cough   

coughed    coughing    coughs   

symptom   

churchyard cough    to cough down   

dry cough    barking cough    hacking cough    congested cough    churchyard cough   

coughed    coughing    cougher    cough up    cough mixture    cough syrup    whooping cough   

expectorate    hem    hack    tussis    expectoration    bechic    tussal    tussicular    tussive   

Christophe    Hoff    Prof.    bake-off    boff    doff    goff    haaf    hof    hoff   

gasp    chuckle    headache    growl    whisper    sob    fever    scream    diarrhea    rattle