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- Cough - v. i. - To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.
- Cough - v. t. - To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.
- Cough - v. t. - To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.
- Cough - v. i. - A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.
- Cough - v. i. - The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.
- Coughed - imp. & p. p. - of Cough
- Cougher - n. - One who coughs.
- Coughing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Cough
- Hack - v. i. - To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
- Cough - v. t. - To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.
- Croup - n. - An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.
- Whoop - v. i. - To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.