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 .
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Expectorate
//ɪkˈspɛktəɹeɪt//
Synonyms for "expectorate" (17 found)
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32 translations across 17 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- խորխել verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Bulgarian
2 entries- изкашлям verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- изхрачвам verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Catalan
1 entries- expectorar verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Czech
1 entries- vykašlat verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Finnish
1 entries- yskiä verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
French
1 entries- expectorer verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Galician
2 entries- esgarrar verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- expectorar verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Hungarian
3 entries- felkrákog verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- felköhög verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- kiköhög verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Icelandic
2 entries- hósta verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- hósta upp verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Italian
1 entries- espettorare verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Macedonian
1 entries- иска́шлува verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Polish
4 entries- odkasłać verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- odkasływać verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- odplunąć verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- odpluwać verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Portuguese
1 entries- expectorar verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Russian
4 entries- отка́шливать verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- отха́ркивать verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- ха́ркать verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- ха́ркнуть verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Spanish
1 entries- expectorar verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Turkish
1 entries- balgam atmak verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Vietnamese
3 entries- khạc verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- khạc đờm verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
- nhổ verb (to cough up fluid from the lungs)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
…the gap in his upper row of teeth enabled him to expectorate in a new and admirable way.
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