coughs

Meaning of coughs

noun
  1. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.
    Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.
  2. 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.
  3. Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame
    He was – cough – indisposed.
verb
  1. To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
    I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.
  2. (sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.
    Sometimes she coughed (up) blood.
  3. To make a noise like a cough.
    The engine coughed and sputtered.

Information about coughs

  • The singular form of coughs is: cough.
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Hyphenation of coughs

coughs

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • coughs is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

coughs synonyms

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