Word Meaning

Meaning of "cough" and the crossword clue

- ... and splutter
- Cold symptom
- To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.
- To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.
- To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.
- 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.
- The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.