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cough

/kawf, kof/US // kɔf, kɒf //UK // (kɒf) //

咳嗽,咳,咳嗽声,咳咳

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to expel air from the lungs suddenly with a harsh noise, often involuntarily.
    • : to make a similar noise as a result of the failure of one or more cylinders to fire in sequence.
    • : to make a similar sound, as a machine gun firing in spurts.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to expel by coughing: to cough up phlegm.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or sound of coughing.
    • : an illness characterized by frequent coughing.
    • : a sound similar to a cough, a machine gun, or an engine firing improperly.
  1. 1
    • : cough up, Slang. to relinquish, especially reluctantly; contribute; give.to blurt out; state, as by way of making a confession: After several hours of vigorous questioning by the police, he finally coughed up the information.

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Examples

  • Coronaviruses like SARS and MERS tend to infect deep in the lungs, so the new coronavirus is probably spread mainly by people with symptoms, such as a cough, or during such medical procedures as being intubated.

  • Wearing any face covering, including bandanas or neck warmers, could at least partially block the cloud of droplets released in a cough, the experiment showed.

  • Two days before the ceremony the bride’s 58-year-old father, who had traveled from Spain, felt feverish and developed a runny nose and cough.

  • Michalak says that previous audiological research has revealed differences between sick and healthy coughs, but the human ear may not be able to distinguish them.

  • Indirect contact might occur when an infected person uses their hand to cover a cough or a sneeze, then touches an object.

  • Some cough up preposterous jury awards, while others lay bare the egregious failures of the criminal justice system.

  • Will went on to say doctors believe a “sneeze or some cough” can spread Ebola.

  • It can spread through a sneeze, cough, sharing a beverage or speaking up close with someone who has the disease.

  • Brosseau said her views had nothing to do with Ebola spreading among the public at large through a sneeze or cough.

  • Get a flu shot, wash your hands, and cover your mouth when you cough.

  • When the quantity is very small there may be no cough, the sputum reaching the larynx by action of the bronchial cilia.

  • It is certain that I then had a bad cough nearly always; and this I am sure was what decided the form of his parting gift to me.

  • They then cough it up and use this material they have so oddly prepared in making their nests.

  • If, now, the patient cough or strain as if at stool, the contents of the stomach will usually be forced out through the tube.

  • When I shifted my position, he turned the other way quick, and coughed–that pore little gone-in cough of hisn.