Meaning

8 senses
  1. (transitive)Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.

    Sometimes she coughed up blood.

    husten

    выка́шливатьvykášlivatʹ, вы́кашлятьvýkašljatʹ

  2. (transitive)To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.

    He almost coughed himself into a fit.

  3. (transitive)To express (words, etc.) in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.

  4. (figuratively, transitive)To surrender (information); to confess.

  5. (figuratively, slang, transitive)Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money).

  6. (intransitive)To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway.

    I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.

    husten

    ка́шлятьkášljatʹ, кашляну́тьkašljanútʹ

    ка́шлятиkášljaty, кашляну́тиkašljanúty

  7. (intransitive)To make a noise like a cough.

    The engine coughed and sputtered.

    husten

    ка́шлятьkášljatʹ, кашляну́тьkašljanútʹ

    ка́шлятиkášljaty

  8. (intransitive, slang)To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans.

More definitions
  • exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion

Examples

383 sentences
  1. Do you have any cough medicine?

    У вас є ліки від кашлю?

    ruУ вас есть что-нибудь от кашля?

    deHast du Medikamente gegen Husten?

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  2. I wish I could stop coughing.

    Шкода, що я не можу перестати кашляти.

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  3. Tom has been coughing all day.

    Том кашляє весь день.

    ruТом весь день кашляет.

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  4. Tom's mother is worried about his cough.

    Маму Тома турбує його кашель.

    deToms Mutter sorgt sich wegen seines Hustens.

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  5. You should buy some cough medicine and aspirin.

    Ти повинен купити щось від кашлю та аспірин.

    ruТы должен купить лекарство от кашля и аспирин.

    deDu solltest Hustensaft und Aspirin kaufen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth:
Русский
By meaning 2
to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth:
to push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth:

Origin

From Middle English coughen, coghen (“to cough; to vomit”) [and other forms], from Old Eng

From Middle English coughen, coghen (“to cough; to vomit”) [and other forms], from Old English *cohhian (compare Old English cohhetan (“to bluster; to riot; to cough (?)”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”), ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.

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Forms

coughs, coughing, coughed, coughed
Base formcough · to cough
3rd person singularcoughs
Present participlecoughing
Past simplecoughed
Past participlecoughed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycough
he, she, itcoughs

Past simpleLesson

all personscoughed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave coughed
he, she, ithas coughed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cough

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Word family

7 related words

Collocations

10 patterns
  • coughing up blood
  • have a cough
  • cough syrup
  • been coughing all
  • cough medicine
  • coughing all
  • stop coughing
  • started coughing
  • has been coughing
  • some cough

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cough — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto