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COUGHING UP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("coughing up" is a kind of...):
ejection; expulsion; forcing out; projection (the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting)