expectorate
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See also: expektorate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]expectorate (third-person singular simple present expectorates, present participle expectorating, simple past and past participle expectorated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To cough up fluid from the lungs.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive, intransitive) To spit.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to cough up fluid from the lungs
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spit — see spit
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “expectorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “expectorate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “expectorate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]expectorate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of expectorar combined with te