cough

noun · verb · interjectionA2
Tiếng Việt:
ho

ho. Họ từ COUGH — danh từ: cough; động từ: cough.

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Động từ

verb
V_es/s
coughs
V_ing/Gerund
coughing
V_ed/pp
coughedno-table-tags
  1. 1.

    (transitive)Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.

    Sometimes she coughed up blood.

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.

    He almost coughed himself into a fit.

  3. 3.

    (transitive)To express (words, etc.) in the manner described in etymology 1 sense 1.1.

  4. 4.

    (figuratively, transitive)To surrender (information); to confess.

  5. 5.

    (figuratively, slang, transitive)Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money).

  6. 6.

    (intransitive)To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway.

    I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.

  7. 7.

    (intransitive)To make a noise like a cough.

    The engine coughed and sputtered.

  8. 8.

    (intransitive, slang)To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
coughs
  1. 1.

    A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.

    Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.

  2. 2.

    A bout of repeated coughing (verb etymology 1 sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.

    whooping cough

    Sorry, I can’t come to work today—I’ve got a nasty cough.

    Đồng nghĩa: tussis

  3. 3.

    (figuratively)(figurative) A noise or sound like a cough (etymology 2, noun sense 1).

  4. 4.

    A vocalisation from a bird or other animal resembling a human cough.

interjection

interjection
  1. 1.

    Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution of blame or a euphemism: ahem.

    He was—cough—indisposed.

Cụm từ thường dùng

cough up

giới từ đi kèm

bad cough

cụm thông dụng

cough syrup

cụm thông dụng

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English coughen, coghen (to cough; to vomit), from Old English *cohhian (compare cohhetan), from *kuh- (to cough), ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, dictionary, wiktionary, word-family, cefr · cập nhật 16/8/2026

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