clear the throat

Questions about clear the throat

What is another word for clear the throat?

It depends which clear the throat you mean. In the sense “clear mucus or food from one's throat”, the synonyms are hawk. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of clear the throat?

WordNet records no antonym for clear the throat. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for clear the throat come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of clear the throat

• Full entry for clear the throatAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for clear the throatWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.