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UK
/kˈɒf/
]
[ US /ˈkɑf, ˈkɔf/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑf, ˈkɔf/ ]
NOUN
- a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis
VERB
-
exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion
The smoker coughs all day
How To Use cough In A Sentence
- Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
- He looked a bit worried when I sat down at the table and produced a bunch of inhalers, some pills, a bottle of cough syrup and some throat lozenges and proceeded to stuff them all into my mouth…
- She had for weeks been suffering from a bad cough and chest infection.
- My chest begins to hurt with more insistency, a couple of coughs rippling through me; there's no time for that now though, as my mind cries out in urgency.
- He presented with a 24 hour history of right-sided chest pain which seemed to be temporally related to a recent bout of coughing.
- All the review really shows is the lack of good quality research on over the counter cough medicines.
- You'd better see a doctor about that cough.
- In the winter her hands would be "chapped," and she would have a cough. In the Days of the Comet
- Its massive back pushed up against the ceiling; the wooden timbers groaned and dust sifted down, making Rafe cough.
- The speaker gave a nervous cough.
