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expectorate

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Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
24
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ɪkˈspɛktəɹeɪt/

Definition of expectorate

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To cough up fluid from the lungs.
    “These rules are equally applicable to pneumonia and perhaps also to bronchitis. It will, therefore, be best to call them, not rules for consumptives, but for all persons who cough and expectorate .”
    “…the gap in his upper row of teeth enabled him to expectorate in a new and admirable way.”
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verb

  1. (ambitransitive)To cough up fluid from the lungs.
    “These rules are equally applicable to pneumonia and perhaps also to bronchitis. It will, therefore, be best to call them, not rules for consumptives, but for all persons who cough and expectorate .”
    “…the gap in his upper row of teeth enabled him to expectorate in a new and admirable way.”
  2. (ambitransitive)To spit.

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Etymology

From Latin expectorātus, past participle of expectorō (“(only figurative) banish from the mind; (post-classical) expel from the breast)”), from ex (“out of”) + pectus (“the breast”).

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