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Verb: cough out
  1. Discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth
    - expectorate, cough up, spit up, spit out

Derived forms: coughed out, coughs out, coughing out

See also: spit

Type of: discharge, eject, exhaust, expel, release

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