expectorates
Meaning of expectorates
- cough or spit out (phlegm) from the throat or lungs.
she was expectorating dirty coloured sputum
a sign asks visitors not to expectorate in the sinks
early 17th century (in the sense ‘enable sputum to be coughed up’, referring to medicine): from Latin expectorat- ‘expelled from the chest’, from the verb expectorare, from ex- ‘out’ + pectus, pector- ‘breast’.
Information about expectorates
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of expectorates is: expectorate.
- Languages in which expectorates is used:
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Hyphenation of expectorates
ex-pec-to-rates
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- expectorates is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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