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cough medicine

cough medicine noun: a medication or medicine used to treat those people with coughing and related conditions, usually in liquid or syrup form.

Noun

cough medicine (countable and uncountable, plural cough medicines)

  1. A medication or medicine used to treat those people with coughing and related conditions, usually in liquid or syrup form.
    Synonyms:
    antitussive, antitussive medicine, cough mixture, cough remedy, cough syrup, linctus

Synonyms of cough medicine

Forms of cough medicine

pluralcough medicines

Questions about cough medicine

What does cough medicine mean?
Cough medicine means a medication or medicine used to treat those people with coughing and related conditions, usually in liquid or syrup form.
What part of speech is cough medicine?
Cough medicine is a noun.
What is the plural of cough medicine?
The plural of cough medicine is cough medicines.

Words near cough medicine in the dictionary

  1. cough down
  2. cough drop
  3. cough drops
  4. cough lollies
  5. cough lolly
  6. cough medicine
  7. cough mixture
  8. cough mixtures
  9. cough out
  10. cough over
  11. cough sweet

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