| Englisch > Deutsch | |
|
| cough | |
| 1. Substantiv: | |
| 2. [1] Husten | |
| [1] The cough I caught last week won't go away. | |
| Der Husten, den ich letzte Woche erwischt habe geht nicht weg. | |
| 3. Verb: | |
| 4. intransitiv | |
| 5. [1] husten | |
| 6. [2] von einem Motor: stottern, husten | |
| Englisch > Englisch | |
|
| cough | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion. |  |
| I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough. | |
| 2. v. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing. | |
| Sometimes she coughed (up) blood. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive) To make a noise like a cough. | |
| The engine coughed and sputtered. | |
| 4. subst. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary. | |
| Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough. | |
| 5. subst. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough. | |
| Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough. | |
| 6. subst. Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame | |
| He was – cough – indisposed. | |
| Deutsch > Englisch | |
|
| husten | |
| 1. v. to cough | |
