cough
Meaning of cough
noun
- 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.
- To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.
- (sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.
Sometimes she coughed (up) blood.
- To make a noise like a cough.
The engine coughed and sputtered.
Information about cough
- The plural form of cough is: coughs.
- Languages in which cough is used:
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Hyphenation of cough
cough
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- cough is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
cough synonyms
Meaning coughing:
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Translation of cough
- German: husten, Husten
- Spanish: toser, tos
- French: tousser, toux
- Italian: tossire, tosse
- Portuguese: tossir, tosse
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