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dry cough

dry cough noun: coughing without expectoration of sputum.

Noun

dry cough (plural dry coughs)

  1. Coughing without expectoration of sputum.
    Antonyms:
    wet cough

dry cough meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Telugu and Kannada

dry cough in Tamil

வரட்சிகாசம், நுணுக்கிருமல், நெஞ்சுபுகைதல், வறட்டிருமல்

dry cough in Marathi

a dry cough
ठसका ṭhasakā

dry cough in Telugu

coughing without expectoration
పొడి దగ్గు poḍi daggu

dry cough in Kannada

ಕಿರುಗೆಮ್ಮು, ಒಣಕೆಮ್ಮು, ಹುಡಿಗೆಮ್ಮು

Antonyms of dry cough

Forms of dry cough

pluraldry coughs

Questions about dry cough

What does dry cough mean?
Dry cough means coughing without expectoration of sputum.
What is dry cough in Tamil?
Dry cough in Tamil is வரட்சிகாசம், நுணுக்கிருமல், நெஞ்சுபுகைதல். See Dry cough meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dry cough?
Dry cough is a noun.
What is the plural of dry cough?
The plural of dry cough is dry coughs.

Words near dry cough in the dictionary

  1. dry cleaners
  2. dry cleaning
  3. dry cleans
  4. dry closet
  5. dry closets
  6. dry cough
  7. dry coughs
  8. dry creek
  9. dry creeks
  10. dry cupping
  11. Dry Diggings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dry cough (page history and authors); dry cough (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ठसका (Marathi) (page history and authors); dry cough (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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