Crossword-Solution: COUGH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cough | v. i. | To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner. |
| Cough | v. t. | To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm. |
| Cough | v. t. | To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse. |
| Cough | v. i. | A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc. |
| Cough | v. i. | The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with COUGH (5)
She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking around your throat.
Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma[obs3], syntexis[obs3], tetanus, tetter[obs3], tonsillitis, tonsilitis[obs3], tracheocele[Med], trachoma, trismus[Med], varicella[Med], varicosis[Med], variola[Med], water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.
The warden’s clock ticked, the young convict’s pen scratched busily in the big book, and his sharp shoulders were shaken every few seconds by a loose cough which he tried to smother.
Her death might have been brought on by biding in the night wind, you know, ma’am; for people used to say she’d go off in a decline: she used to cough a good deal in winter time.
The minister might stand there, if it so pleased him, until morning should redden in the east, without other risk than that the dank and chill night air would creep into his frame, and stiffen his joints with rheumatism, and clog his throat with catarrh and cough; thereby defrauding the expectant audience of tomorrow’s prayer and sermon.
Quotes with COUGH (3)
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
Would you like a cough drop Dolores?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 30 times in crossword archives (1979–2024).