cough meaning
EN[kɒf] [kɔf] [kɑf] [-ɒf]US A light cough
WCough
- A cough ( pronunciation Latin: tussis) is a sudden and often repetitively occurring reflex which helps to clear the large breathing passages from secretions, irritants, foreign particles and microbes.
- Frequent coughing usually indicates the presence of a disease. Many viruses and bacteria benefit evolutionarily by causing the host to cough, which helps to spread the disease to new hosts.
- Treatment should target the cause; for example, smoking cessation or discontinuing ACE inhibitors. Cough suppressants such as codeine or dextromethorphan are frequently prescribed, but have been demonstrated to have little effect.
- NounPLcoughs
- A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.
- Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.
- A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.
- Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough.
- Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame.
- He was – cough – indisposed.
- A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.
- VerbSGcoughsPRcoughingPT, PPcoughed
- To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
- One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
- To make a noise like a cough.
- The engine coughed and sputtered.
- To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- She took a big drink of milk and it went down the wrong way. She was coughing for the next two minutes.
- Do you think he'll be able to cough up the three grand by Tuesday?
- That team had the game won, but they coughed it up in the end.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of cough in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary