Cough

What do we mean by cough?

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. intransitive verb

The act of coughing. noun

An illness marked by frequent coughing. noun

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

To confess or disclose. 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). phrasal verb

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.

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

To lay up for; store as in a coffer.

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

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

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

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

Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame

Words that are spelled similarly to cough:
cough, rough, tough, couch, dough, bough, gough, hough, clough, lough, nough, ough, chough, sough, pough, couth, chugh, crough, kough, vough, wough, coug, cougs.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word cough:
expectoration, hemoptysis, expectorant, sputum, antitussive, pertussis, runny, wheezing, dyspnea, codeine, phlegm, sweats, coughing, psychogenic, bronchitis, syrup, whooping, sneeze, aches, menthol, sneezing, sore, bronchial, mucus, measles, headache, diphtheria, tetanus, chills, irritant, dizziness, asthma, rheumatism, constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, analgesic, reflex, dysentery, edema, respiratory, breath, glycol, medicines, irritation, rash, pneumonia, throat, fever, pulmonary, breathing, fatigue, lungs, drops, influenza, airway, chest, inflammation, appetite, nasal, gastrointestinal, vaccine, tuberculosis, symptoms, morphine, symptom, canine, lung, allergic, abdominal, herbal, smallpox, remedies, remedy, congestion, swelling, chronic, pain, hepatitis, acute, flu, tract, infection, medication, ingredient, prescription, weakness, doses, onset, malaria, liver, prescribed, painful, diseases, nose, diagnosed, preparations, muscle, viral.

Words that rhyme with cough:
off, trough, scoff, cutoff, loffe, lay off, runoff, quaff, standoff, boff, payoff, tradeoff, put off, doff, take off, kickoff, takeoff, set off, drop-off, go off, drop off, cut off, get off, pull off, pay off, layoff, spinoff, kick off, pilaf, sign off, round off, rip off, show off, gough, knockoff, write off, stave off, knock off, piss off, run off, spin off, back off, come off, call off, turnoff, playoff, face off, ward off, goff, stroganoff, mazeltov, hold off, liftoff, rudolf, troff, tick off, break off, khrushchev, turn off, roll off, fend off, tip off, square off, head off, blow off, ripoff, tell off, brush off, romanov, pass off, fall off, shroff, cloff, fob off, snoff, molotov, cast off, rub off, mof, send off, checkoff, laugh off, jack off, hoff, lauf, knopf, shake off, let off, jerk-off, toss off, carry off, hof, live off, throw off, blastoff, give off, wear off, haaf, tipoff, troph.

Adjectives that are often used to describe cough:
whooping, dry, chronic, persistent, productive, slight, nonproductive, little, short, bad, severe, hooping, spasmodic, violent, hacking, paroxysmal, troublesome, croupy, nervous, deep, hoarse, irritating, hard, frequent, constant, harsh, occasional, hollow, painful, distressing, loose, loud, mild, unproductive, terrible, effective, racking, convulsive, nocturnal, patient, incessant, characteristic, irritative, bronchial, brassy, discreet, peculiar, weak, ineffective, acute, cold, nasty, sharp, harassing, irritable, obstinate, asthmatic, husky, induced, recurrent, wet, laryngeal, dreadful, sudden, moist, consumptive, nagging, kennel, suffocative, annoying, muffled, polite, tight, rough, hysterical, faint, continual, excessive, metallic, prolonged, apologetic, counter, stomach, explosive, gentle.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective cough:
suppressants, reflex, medicines, syncope, syrups, syrup, drops, mixtures, medicine, headache, suppression, mixture, remedies, preparations, suppressant, coughing, asthma, enhancement, receptors, plates, medications, results, lozenges, impulse, cold, frequency, pellets, cpr, center, fractures, medication, fracture, mechanism, dynamics, sensitivity, remedy, slight, drop, sedatives, test, response, whitlam, dry, depressants, symptoms, pain, control, tenderness, powder, ton, increases, plate, reflexes, returns, barking, effectiveness, candy, incessant, colds, tablets, threshold, physiotherapy, joule, balsam, causes, balls, bucca, preparation, agg, sets, variant, hollow, morning, much, tea, vomiting, irritating, present, pertussis, map, peak, teas, paroxysmal, illness, analgesics, vaccines.

Consonant match to cough:
calf, cuff, coiffe, keef, kief, koff, kiff, cuffe, keefe, keeffe.

Words that sound like cough:
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