cough

cough is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.
2. transitive verb. To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.
3. transitive verb. To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.
4. intransitive verb. A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.
5. intransitive verb. The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.
6. 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: coughing

7. verb. exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion

   "The smoker coughs all day"

Synonyms

coughing

Common word forms

coughs, coughed, cougher, coughing

Words from these letters

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