Uttal
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Definitioner
Verb
- To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
- To make a noise like a cough.
Substantiv
- A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.
- A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.
Exempel
- One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
- I drew a deep breath, and a moment later wished I hadn't, because I drew it while drinking the remains of my gin and tonic. “Does Kipper know of this?“ I said, when I had finished coughing.
- I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.
- The engine coughed and sputtered.
- Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.
- Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough.
- He was – cough – indisposed.
- To cough is to push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
- I breathed in a load of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.
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