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Expectorate

//ɪkˈspɛktəɹeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cough up fluid from the lungs. ambitransitive

    "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 ."

  2. 2
    discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth wordnet
  3. 3
    To spit. ambitransitive
  4. 4
    clear out the chest and lungs wordnet

Etymology

From Latin expectorātus, past participle of expectorō (“(only figurative) banish from the mind; (post-classical) expel from the breast)”), from ex (“out of”) + pectus (“the breast”).

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