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. House Speaker Paul Ryan:

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

2. Vicky Zapata:

   Every time he moved, he started to cough.

3. Wynter Finley:

   She was already experiencing it, you go through stages of getting a bloated stomach, feeling really lethargic and tired, having a cough. And she started showing those symptoms. But we didn’t think anything of it.

4. Health Minister Terawan Agus Putranto:

   Imagine if everybody who had a cough or flu was checked, then millions would be checked.

5. Vince Lu:

   One year ago, when we were sick, no matter it was cold, flu or fever, we still went out with friends and ate hotpot together with no problem at all, but now if you have a mild sore throat, when you cough a bit, people next to you will jump ten metres away from you.