| inglese > italiano | |
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| cough | |
| 1. verb. tossire | |
| 2. sost. (medicina) tosse | |
| inglese > inglese | |
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| 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. | |
| italiano > inglese | |
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| tossire | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) to cough | |
