Antonyms for cough
kɔf, kɒfcough

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1. • Expectorate

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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. coughnoun

   Associated words:
   bechic, tussicular, pectoral, tussive

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1. sneeze

   Submitted by anonymous on November 19, 2019  

How to use cough in a sentence?

1. John Miller:

   In litigation or a negotiation, there will be requests to do more, to cough up more money and yet I do think it's a fair statement to say that a very high debt burden absolutely has a negative impact on the economy and if you sit back and just continue with austerity it gets worse.

2. Joseph Vinetz:

   The idea about the face mask is to prevent the virus from coming out of somebody's mouth and nose, mostly out of their mouth, they prevent somebody, when they talk or sometimes when they sneeze or cough, from expelling virus and leading to infection in other people.

3. Jaret Davey:

   All owls do regurgitate small little pellets just of indigestible material because, unlike us, where (when) we eat a piece of meat we eat around the bone, birds of prey just eat the whole thing, for the small little bones they can’t digest, they just cough it back up.

4. Hillary Clinton:

   When I ’m under the weather, Ican afford to take a few days off, millions of Americans ca n’t, they either go to work sick or lose a paycheck, lots of Americans still don't even have insurance, or they do but it’s too expensive to actually use, so they toss back some Tylenols, they chug orange juice, hope that the cough or the virus goes away on its own.

5. Brett Brown:

   To just come down and cough it up after you've played decent defense for most of the game... it's deflating for them and what we're trying to build.

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