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COUGH

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cough I. substantiv

1. tuse, acces / chintă de tuse;

2. răceală;

coughs and colds tuse şi guturai;

(med.) whooping cough tuse convulsivă / măgărească.

cough II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a tuşi.

2. (amer. sl.) a plăti, a fi silit să plătească.

cough II. verb B. tranzitiv

to cough down a face (pe cineva, un orator) să tacă, tuşind;

to cough out a) a expectora; b) a spune; a divulga;

to cough up a) v. to cough out. b) to cough up one's cookies a voma, a vărsa; c) (fam.) a spune, a scăpa (vorba despre), a destăinui; d) v. II. A, 1. e) a scoate la iveală; a scoate (bani etc.).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

A cough that lasts for 8 weeks or longer.

(Chronic cough, NCI Dictionary)

This leads to cough and difficulty getting air in and out of the lungs.

(Chronic Bronchitis, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Airway Questionnaire 20 (AQ20) Do you cough often during the day?

(AQ20 - Cough Often During the Day, NCI Thesaurus)

'Let us go on,' says the man. But the woman coughs and falls in the snow.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

"Ahem!" coughed Aunt Carrol softly, with a look at Aunt March.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Micawber coughed, and drank his punch with an air of exceeding satisfaction—still glancing at Traddles, as if he desired to have his opinion.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

That last fit of coughing has tired me a little; I feel as if I could sleep: but don't leave me, Jane; I like to have you near me.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Better wait an hour or two, or even half a day for your letters, than run the risk of bringing on your cough again.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I looked at him significantly and coughed.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Bleeding and coughing, already stricken, he sprang at the elder and fought while life faded from him, his legs going weak beneath him, the light of day dulling on his eyes, his blows and springs falling shorter and shorter.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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