intransitive verb. To expel air from the lungs suddenly and noisily, often to keep the respiratory passages free of irritating material.

intransitive verb. To make a noise similar to noisy expulsion of air from the lungs.

intransitive verb. To expel by coughing.

noun. The act of coughing.

noun. An illness marked by frequent coughing.

phrasal verb. To hand over or relinquish (money or another possession), often reluctantly.

phrasal verb. To confess or disclose.

phrasal verb. undefined

phrasal verb. To lose possession of (the ball or puck), especially because of defensive pressure from the opposing team.

phrasal verb. To fail to maintain (a lead in a game).

To make a more or less violent effort, accompanied with noise, to expel the air from the respiratory organs, and force out any matter that irritates the air-passages, or renders respiration difficult.

To expel from the air-passages by a more or less violent effort with noise and usually with expectoration: followed by up: as, to cough up phlegm.

noun. An abrupt and more or less violent and noisy expiration, excited by some irritation of the respiratory organs.

To lay up for; store as in a coffer.

intransitive verb. To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

transitive verb. To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up.

transitive verb. To bring to a specified state by coughing.

transitive verb. to silence or put down (an objectionable speaker) by simulated coughing.

noun. 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.

noun. The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.

noun. cough due to irritation in the stomach or ear.

noun. undefined

verb. To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

verb. To make a noise like a cough

noun. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

noun. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.

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

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