cough out

Questions about cough out

What is another word for cough out?

It depends which cough out you mean. In the sense “discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth”, the synonyms are expectorate, cough up, spit up, spit out. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 cough out?

WordNet records no antonym for cough out. 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 cough out 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 cough out

• Full entry for cough outAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for cough outWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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