Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.
- 2transitive verb
To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.
- 3transitive verb
To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.
- 4intransitive 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.
- 5intransitive verb
The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.
- 6noun
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
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- 7verb
exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion
"The smoker coughs all day"
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