verb Download 🔗Share To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion. Examples : "I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough." medicine physiology body disease action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing. Examples : "Sometimes she coughed (up) blood." medicine physiology body disease Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To make a noise like a cough. Examples : "The engine coughed and sputtered." medicine physiology disease body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A cough; the act of coughing. Examples : "The loud coughing from the back of the classroom disrupted the teacher. " medicine physiology disease body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading