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cough out

cough out verb: to remove by coughing, especially figuratively, to say through coughs.

Verb

cough out (third-person singular simple present coughs out, present participle coughing out, simple past and past participle coughed out)

  1. (transitive) To remove by coughing, especially figuratively, to say through coughs.
    • He coughed out blood.
    • "I'm okay," he coughed out.
  2. (especially, transitive) To give (money) to someone.
    • Eventually the machine coughed out the money.

Forms of cough out

third-person singular presentcoughs out
present participlecoughing out
past participlecoughed out
pastcoughed out

Questions about cough out

What does cough out mean?
Cough out means to remove by coughing, especially figuratively, to say through coughs.
What part of speech is cough out?
Cough out is a verb.
What is the past tense of cough out?
The past tense of cough out is coughed out.

Words near cough out in the dictionary

  1. cough lollies
  2. cough lolly
  3. cough medicine
  4. cough mixture
  5. cough mixtures
  6. cough out
  7. cough over
  8. cough sweet
  9. cough sweets
  10. cough syrup
  11. cough syrups

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