coughing
Meaning of coughing
verb
- 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.
noun
A cough; the act of coughing.
Information about coughing
- The plural form of coughing is: coughings.
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Hyphenation of coughing
cough-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- coughing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
coughing synonyms
Meaning cough:
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