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cough

noun as in expelled air with sound

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verb as in expelling air with sound

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Other vaccine-preventable diseases such as whooping cough also are on the rise.

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In his one half of duty, the Browns were held scoreless and coughed away the lead.

The Bruins coughed up two fumbles in the first half and would have lost a third had the Huskies not been called for defensive holding on the play, nullifying the turnover.

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In fact, her Jewish lover was lying in the base of a heavy mahogany sofa bed that was locked from the inside; he had codeine to suppress his persistent cough.

With a 4-2 victory that saw it twice cough up the lead, the team booked its place in next summer’s World Cup in North America.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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