cough

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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.”

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

   “No ſtationary ſteeds / Cough their ovvn knell, vvhile heedleſs of the ſound / The ſilent circle fan themſelves, and quake.”

4. fiil To surrender (information); to confess.
5. fiil Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money).

   “By the time you get back the men will all be striking out for the fire, and we'll break for the house and collar the dollars. Everybody cough up what matches he's got.”

6. fiil 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.”

7. fiil To make a noise like a cough.

   “The engine coughed and sputtered.”

8. fiil To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans.
9. isim A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.

   “Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.”

10. isim A bout of repeated coughing (verb etymology 1 sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.

    “whooping cough”

11. isim A noise or sound like a cough (etymology 2, noun sense 1).
12. isim A vocalisation from a bird or other animal resembling a human cough.
13. ünlem Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution of blame or a euphemism: ahem.

    “He was—cough—indisposed.”