Definition of Cough

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Definition of Cough

Cough

To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.

To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.

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.

The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.

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Cough Quotations

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
Barbra Streisand

Love and a cough cannot be hid.
George Herbert

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
Alice Duer Miller

I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs.
Rupert Grint

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
Ethel Barrymore

I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.
Daniel Baldwin

Cough Translations

cough in Afrikaans is hoes
cough in Danish is hoste
cough in Dutch is hoesten
cough in French is tousser, toussent, toux, pectoral, toussez
cough in German is Husten, huste, husten
cough in Italian is tossire
cough in Norwegian is hoste
cough in Spanish is toser, tos
cough in Swedish is hosta

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