Synonyms for cough
kɔf, kɒfcough

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1. cough, coughingverb

   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

2. coughverb

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

   "The smoker coughs all day"

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1. • Expectorate

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1. coughnoun

   Associated words:
   bechic, tussicular, pectoral, tussive

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1. List of paraphrases for "cough":

   coughing, pertussis, dickey

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1. Debbie Turley:

   I was actually exposed this week by someone who didn't know they had it, but they did have a cough, and they didn't stay home.

2. Orlando Dominguez:

   But we're also conveying to the public that if you've fallen and might have hurt your knee or you have a cough, things like that, that are not emergent or urgent, they should follow up with their primary care physician or go into a walk-in clinic.

3. Paula Reed:

   We don't know anything about his treatment. We haven't been able to talk to him since he was taken to isolation, he was experiencing a fever, a cough and he lost his sense of smell or taste, possibly both. That's all we know.

4. Nasreen Gul:

   When we burned wood for fuel, the smoke from the stove would spread throughout our home and we would cough and feel pain in our eyes, now cooking food and doing other chores in the kitchen has become considerably easier and stress-free. We use an electric stove as electricity is much cheaper and readily available.

5. William Schaffner:

   We do not test people with no symptoms because it's a resource issue, however, we are emphasizing that people who have this small cluster of important symptoms -- fever and anything related to the lower respiratory tract such as cough and difficulty breathing -- reach out to be evaluated.