ALL meanings of cough
cough
C c - verb cough When you cough, you force air out of your throat with a sudden, harsh noise. You often cough when you are ill, or when you are nervous or want to attract someone's attention. 3
- verb cough Cough is also a noun. 3
- countable noun cough A cough is an illness in which you cough often and your chest or throat hurts. 3
- verb cough If you cough blood or mucus, it comes up out of your throat or mouth when you cough. 3
- verb cough Cough up means the same as cough. 3
- verb cough If an engine or other machine coughs, it makes a sudden, harsh noise. 3
- verb cough to expel air or solid matter from the lungs abruptly and explosively through the partially closed vocal chords 3
- verb cough to make a sound similar to this 3
- verb cough to utter or express with a cough or coughs 3
- verb cough to confess to a crime 3
- noun cough an act, instance, or sound of coughing 3
- noun cough a condition of the lungs or throat that causes frequent coughing 3
- intransitive verb cough to expel air suddenly and noisily from the lungs through the glottis, either as the result of an involuntary muscular spasm in the throat or to clear the air passages 3
- intransitive verb cough to make a sound like this 3
- verb transitive cough to expel by coughing 3
- verb transitive cough to express or utter by coughing 3
- noun cough the act or sound of coughing 3
- noun cough a condition, as of the lungs or throat, causing frequent coughing 3
- noun cough Expel air from the lungs with a sudden sharp sound. 1
- intransitive verb cough expel air 1
- noun cough sound of coughing 1
- noun cough sickness 1
- intransitive verb cough engine: make faltering noise 1
- verb without object cough to expel air from the lungs suddenly with a harsh noise, often involuntarily. 1
- verb without object cough (of an internal-combustion engine) to make a similar noise as a result of the failure of one or more cylinders to fire in sequence. 1
- verb without object cough to make a similar sound, as a machine gun firing in spurts. 1
- verb with object cough to expel by coughing (usually followed by up or out): to cough up phlegm. 1
- noun cough the act or sound of coughing. 1
- noun cough an illness characterized by frequent coughing. 1
- noun cough a sound similar to a cough, a machine gun, or an engine firing improperly. 1
- noun cough A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary. 0
- noun cough A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough. 0
- noun cough Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame. 0
- verb cough To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion. 0
- verb cough To make a noise like a cough. 0