Synonyms for cough
kɔf, kɒfcough

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1. cough, coughingverb

   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

   Synonyms:
   coughing

2. coughverb

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

   "The smoker coughs all day"

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1. • Expectorate

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1. coughnoun

   Associated words:
   bechic, tussicular, pectoral, tussive

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1. List of paraphrases for "cough":

   coughing, pertussis, dickey

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1. Lejla Szabo:

   I thought the flu -- you have a cough and cold and you stay home for two days, it didn't cross my mind it could lead to something this serious.

2. House Speaker Paul Ryan:

   Put a cough drop in the corner of your mouth, it keeps you salivating so you don't go thirsty.

3. Jonathan Parsons:

   It’s pretty rare to have an isolated cough as the only symptom to herald a lung cancer, if you really did have lung cancer, it’s unlikely that you are going to be coughing with no other symptoms for more than 8 weeks—you’re going to develop other things.

4. Tony Pua:

   The proposed debt-asset swap with IPIC hasn't been completed and there is no certainty that 1MDB would be able to cough out 18 billion ringgit of assets to swap the equivalent amount of debt with IPIC by June 2016.

5. William Schaffner:

   We do not test people with no symptoms because it's a resource issue, however, we are emphasizing that people who have this small cluster of important symptoms -- fever and anything related to the lower respiratory tract such as cough and difficulty breathing -- reach out to be evaluated.