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expectorates

expectorates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of expectorate.

Meaning of expectorate

Verb

expectorate (third-person singular simple present expectorates, present participle expectorating, simple past and past participle expectorated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To cough up fluid from the lungs.
    • These rules are equally applicable to pneumonia and perhaps also to bronchitis. It will, therefore, be best to call them, not rules for consumptives, but for all persons who cough and expectorate .1893, Popular Science Monthly (ed.), Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 42 (Jan 1893) — Notes
  2. (ambitransitive) To spit.

Questions about expectorates

What is expectorates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Expectorates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of expectorate.

Words near expectorates in the dictionary

  1. expective
  2. expectorant
  3. expectorants
  4. expectorate
  5. expectorated
  6. expectorates
  7. expectorating
  8. expectoration
  9. expectorations
  10. expectorative
  11. expectoratives

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