Definition of Cough out

1. Verb. Discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth.

Exact synonyms: Cough Up, Expectorate, Spit Out, Spit Up
Specialized synonyms: Cough, Ptyalise, Ptyalize, Spew, Spit, Spue, Spit Out, Splutter, Sputter
Generic synonyms: Discharge, Eject, Exhaust, Expel, Release
Derivative terms: Expectoration, Expectoration, Expectorator

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cough Out

coude system
coude telescope
coudee
coudees
cougarlike
cougars
cough
cough drop
cough fracture
cough mixture
cough mixtures
cough out (current term)
cough reflex
cough suppressant
cough syrup
cough syrups
cough up
coughdrop
coughdrops
coughed
coughed up
cougher
coughers
coughing
coughing up
coughingly

Literary usage of Cough out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Evolution of Governments and Laws: Exhibiting the Governmental by Stephen Haley Allen (1922)
"Of these four, in the trial by fire, let the person whose light goes out first be the loser if before the light goes out, one shall cough out the water from ..."

2. The Baptist Quarterly Review by J R Baumes, Robert Stuart MacArtur, Henry C Vedder (1882)
"Of these four, in the trial by fire, let the person whose light first goes out be the loser; if before the light goes out, one shall cough out the water ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1882)
"“If your Grace did but know,” he says, “of my processions with her, all manner of ways, your Grace would not a little marvel that she will no more cough out ..."

4. Calendar of State Papers: Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth by Great Britain Public Record Office (1863)
"Kate Ashley would not " open any of the things " with which she was so fully replenished," nor would Elizabeth " cough out more matter" than it suited her ..."

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