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, cough

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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Joanne Merola:

   Angelina Friedman had symptoms -- fever, a dry cough, they thought Angelina Friedman might also have the flu.

4. Donald Trump:

   Let's do that over, he's coughing in the middle of my answer, if you're going to cough, please leave the room. You just can't, you just can't cough. Boy, oh boy.

5. 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.