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cough
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- pronunciation:
- kawf
- parts of speech:
- verb, noun
- features:
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
coughs, coughing, coughed |
| definition 1: |
When you cough, you push air out from your lungs and make a sharp noise in your throat. People often cough when they have a cold or when they breathe in something that feels bad to the lungs.
I swallowed my food the wrong way and it made me cough. |
| definition 2: |
When you cough up something, you bring it up through your mouth by coughing.
The cat coughed up a bit of fur. |
| related words: |
stall |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
When you have a cough, you have an illness that makes you cough. It's often hard to sleep at night if you have a bad cough.
Tim stayed home from school because he had a fever and a cough. |
| definition 2: |
A cough is an act of coughing.
We heard lots of coughs from the audience during the performance. |
| derivation: |
cougher (n.) |
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