Synonyms for cough
kɔf, kɒfcough

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1. cough, coughingverb

   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

   Synonyms:
   coughing

2. coughverb

   exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion

   "The smoker coughs all day"

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1. • Expectorate

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1. coughnoun

   Associated words:
   bechic, tussicular, pectoral, tussive

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1. List of paraphrases for "cough":

   coughing, pertussis, dickey

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1. Lisa Keller:

   It's definitely different now than it was two, three years ago, from a provider's perspective, you have your challenging and stressful days, but now you hear a kid cough [ and you wonder if ] this kid has a cold, and it's no big deal, or we could be shutting down for 20 days.

2. House Speaker Paul Ryan:

   Put a cough drop in the corner of your mouth, it keeps you salivating so you don't go thirsty.

3. Wynter Finley:

   She was already experiencing it, you go through stages of getting a bloated stomach, feeling really lethargic and tired, having a cough. And she started showing those symptoms. But we didn’t think anything of it.

4. Tony Pua:

   The proposed debt-asset swap with IPIC hasn't been completed and there is no certainty that 1MDB would be able to cough out 18 billion ringgit of assets to swap the equivalent amount of debt with IPIC by June 2016.

5. Orlando Dominguez:

   But we're also conveying to the public that if you've fallen and might have hurt your knee or you have a cough, things like that, that are not emergent or urgent, they should follow up with their primary care physician or go into a walk-in clinic.