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