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