cough
US: /ˈkɑf/, /ˈkɔf/
UK: /kˈɒf/
UK: /kˈɒf/
English Vietnamese dictionary
cough /kɔf/
- danh từ
- chứng ho; sự ho; tiếng ho
- to have a bad cough: bị ho nặng
- churchyard cough
- (xem) churchyard
- to give a [slight] cough
- đằng hắng
- chứng ho; sự ho; tiếng ho
- nội động từ
- ho
- to cough down
- ho ầm lên để át lời (ai)
- to cough the speaker down: ho ầm lên để cho diễn giả phải im đi
- to cough out (up)
- vừa nói, vừa ho; ho mà khạc ra
- (từ lóng) phun ra, nhả ra
- to cough out (up) money: nhả tiền ra
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun
+ verb
1 [V] to force out air suddenly and noisily through your throat, for example when you have a cold: I couldn't stop coughing. + to cough nervously / politely / discreetly
2 [VN] ~ sth (up) to force sth out of your throat or lungs by coughing: Sometimes she coughed (up) blood.
3 [V] (of an engine) to make a sudden harsh noise: The old engine coughed and spluttered into life.
Phrasal Verbs: cough up
cough sth<->up: (informal) He owes us money but he won't cough up. + Steve finally coughed up the money he owed us.
+ noun
1 an act or a sound of coughing: She gave a little cough to attract my attention.
2 an illness or infection that makes you cough often: to have a dry / persistent / hacking cough + My cold's better, but I can't seem to shake off this cough.
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Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
little, polite, slight
The butler gave a little cough to announce his presence.
| violent | bad, nasty | chesty, croupy | barking, dry, hacking, racking, rasping | persistent | smoker's
He had a smoker's cough and nicotine-yellowed fingers.
VERB + COUGH
give
He gave a slight, apologetic cough and said, ‘Excuse me.’
| have, suffer from | catch, develop, get
COUGH + NOUN
medicine, mixture, sweet
> Special page at ILLNESS
ADV.
a bit, a little, slightly | apologetically, discreetly, nervously, politely | loudly, violently | up
He vomited and began coughing up blood.
PHRASES
cough and splutter
The whisky made her cough and splutter.
| a coughing fit
He had a coughing fit and couldn't speak for a few moments.
| cough into life
(figurative) The old engine coughed into life.
Concise English dictionary
coughs|coughed|coughingkɒf
noun
+sudden expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis
+the act of exhaling air suddenly with a noise
verb
+exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion
