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Coughing

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Present participle of cough.

n. A cough, the act of coughing.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A violent and sonorous effort to expel the air from the lungs.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Word Usage

"I hope I don't speak too soon, but I do feel normal again and the coughing is pretty much gone."

Equivalent

ear cough

Verb Form

coughed coughing coughs

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

symptom

Cross Reference

churchyard cough to cough down

Hyponym

dry cough barking cough hacking cough congested cough churchyard cough

Form

coughed coughing cougher cough up cough mixture

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

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Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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Same Context

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