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expectorate
English
Etymology
From Latin expector?tus, past participle of expector?re (“only fig. banish from the mind, but literally (as in modern use) expel from the breast”), from ex (“out of”) + pectus (“the breast”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?sp?kt??e?t/
Verb
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.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spit.
Related terms
- expectorant
- expectoration
Translations
See also
- sputum
Further reading
- expectorate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- expectorate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- expectorate at OneLook Dictionary Search
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