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cough English

Meaning cough meaning

What does cough mean?
Definitions in simple English

cough Verb

— If you cough, you quickly blow air out and make a noise because of a feeling in the throat. This cold is terrible. I was coughing and sneezing all night. She coughed to get his attention.

cough Noun

— A cough is the action or sound of quickly blowing air out because of a feeling in the throat. My doctor gave me some medicine for my cough. Her cough was so bad that she was coughing up blood.

cough

— verb exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion The smoker coughs all day — 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

Synonyms cough synonyms

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cough English » English

coughing cold have a cough hack give a cough clear the throat clear one’s throat catarrh tussis hoop expectorate cough up whooping cough whoop wheezing wheeze utter aham spit sob convulsively sneezing sneeze rasp malaria keep quiet influenza hem head cold hawking have a sore throat hacking gargle emaciated cough out clearing one’s throat clear throat choke chill bronchitis asthma a cough

Topics cough topics

What do people use cough to talk about?
Person Body functions

Cough, sneeze
Person Healthy

Disease
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Types of sounds
Person Healthy

Symptom of disease
Daily life Food

Tobacco

Conjugation cough conjugation

How do you conjugate cough?

cough · verb

Examples cough examples

How do I use cough in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Cover your mouth when you cough, sneeze, or yawn.
I have a dry cough.
Tom can't get rid of his cough.
Do you have something that's good for a cough?
What helps with a cough?
What helps cure a cough?
I have a cough and a little fever.
Do you have any cough medicine?
You should buy some cough medicine and aspirin.
I'm sure that Ted's cough is due to smoking.
Do you have cough drops?
I have a persistent cough.
My cough is getting worse.
I cannot get rid of my cough.
Tom's mother worries about his cough.
I'm concerned about my wife's hacking cough.
Do you have a cough?
Does the cough disturb your sleep?
Tom has a cough.
I have a cough.
I had a bad cough, so I took the bitter medicine.
These cough lozenges taste bitter but they will do you much good.
Your cough is the consequence of smoking.

Movie subtitles

I was given it in cough mixture.
You're not very good at faking a cough.
Cough up some change.
She started to cough while dancing.
Cut the gab! Cough up the bread!
I've had measles, mumps and whooping cough.
He's had whooping cough.
Cough a little before you come to number 11.
You shouldn't smoke. It makes you cough.
It'll burn his eyes, make him cough.
I cough.
Well, Kitty has no discretion in her cough. She times them ill.
I don't cough for my own amusement, Mama.
Hold still. Cough.
One of you has it and you'd better cough it up.
She started to cough while dancing. She was ill.
You cough up and I keep quiet or I give you away.
Cough.
You can cough up that silver spoon now.
If I go on a diet, you lose the weight. If I have a cold, you cough. If we should ever have a baby, I'm not so sure I'd be the mother.
Can't you cough or sneeze or do something to let a person know you're about?
Oh, a bit of a cough.
I have a bad cough.
You'll develop a cough by the time you get there.
If I cough that means it's hurting too much.
Cough up some change. Come on, folks.
Got a nasty cough, hasn't he?
Never mind my cough.
Cough up the bread!
Seems I must discontinue my research, spend my life diagnosing measles mumps, and whooping cough or encounter his serious disapproval.
If I have a cold, you cough.
Measles, measles, measles, Whooping cough, measles, appendicitis.
All you have to do is to go out there and tell him that your child has whooping cough.
Let's see, whooping cough or maybe scarlet fever.
It's my child, he's been ill with whooping cough.
He promised to cough up.
You'd better take a bit of scraped onion and sugar for that cough. and these drops as directed.

News and current affairs

In 1996, at age 25, Armstrong developed fatigue, testicular pain and a bloody cough.
Since 1970, the international community has managed to vaccinate most of the world's children against measles, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria, and polio.
But hygiene recommendations like hand-washing and cough-covering help only a little.
But, for at least five years, Hong Kong's citizens have found themselves starting to cough and wheeze from the city's increasingly degraded air.
And if the oil-poor Dubai government didn't have the money, then somehow its oil-rich sister state Abu Dhabi would cough up the cash.
As the number of people who have witnessed firsthand the effects of measles and other childhood diseases - such as mumps, rubella, polio, and whooping cough - has declined, so has society's commitment to keeping them away.
This has contributed to the spread not only of measles, but also of whooping cough and mumps.

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