Word Type

Verb

Noun

Intj

The word "cough" can be used as verb, noun and intj.

Word Relationships

Causes Desire

have physical exam

Derived Terms

Holocough cough and a spit cough attack cough button cough candy cough capsule cough down cough drop cough drug cough expectorant cough fracture cough impulse cough linctus cough lolly cough lozenge cough medicine cough mixture cough muscle cough out cough over cough pill cough preparation cough reflex cough reliever cough remedy cough suppressant cough sweet cough syncope cough syrup cough tablet cough tea cough test cough up cougher coughing coughingly coughy hiccough soften someone's cough upper airway cough syndrome

Context

sometimes followed by up

Subevents

exhale inhale

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

cough out cough up expectorate spit out spit up symptom

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Khumbu cough anticough barking cough bitonal cough blood cough chesty cough chin cough chink cough choking cough churchyard cough congested cough coughless coughwort croupy cough dry cough effective cough habit cough hacking cough hooping cough kennel cough lingering cough loose cough miner's cough nasty cough nervous cough non-productive cough obstinate cough paroxysmal cough persistent cough productive cough retching cough single cough smoker's cough snough spasmodic cough spicy cough staccato cough tickling cough tickly cough tooth cough tracheal cough trouser cough vampire cough wet cough whooping cough

Type Of (IsA)

body movement exhalation illness sound emission symptom

Manner Of

expectorate

Motivated By Goal

of cold throat scratching

Part Of

respiratory disease

Related Terms

air expulsion involuntary lungs noisy sudden

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.