Expectorate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To eject from the mouth; spit.
  • v. To cough up and eject by spitting.
  • verb-intransitive. To spit.
  • verb-intransitive. To clear out the chest and lungs by coughing up and spitting out matter.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cough up fluid from the lungs.
  • v. To spit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.
  • verb-intransitive. To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To eject from the trachea or lungs; discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing or hawking and spitting; spit out.
  • To eject or reject as if by spitting; cast out or aside as useless or worthless.
  • To eject matter from the lungs or throat by coughing or hawking and spitting; by euphemism, to spit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth
  • v. clear out the chest and lungs
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    remove    take    withdraw    take away   
    Cross Reference
    spite    sputum   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    spit