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Expectoration

🔄 Synonyms of "Expectoration"

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Word	Definition
spitverb	A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
spittingnoun	(chiefly archaic, medicine) expectoration

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Expectoration"

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Word	Definition
spittingnoun	(chiefly archaic, medicine) expectoration
spitnoun	A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
sputumnoun	(physiology) Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.
expuitionnoun	(obsolete) The act of spiting phlegm.
sputationnoun	The act of spitting; expectoration.
coughnoun	A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
efflationnoun	(archaic) A blowing, breathing or puffing out.
hoickingnoun	The process of gathering mucous and phlegm in the mouth and spitting it out.
phlegmnoun	Viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing.
wet coughnoun	Coughing with expectoration of sputum.
spewagenoun	(informal) The act of spewing, or material that is spewed out.
hawknoun	A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.
spewverb	(intransitive, informal) To vomit.
jactationnoun	Boasting; bragging; showing off.
eructationnoun	The act of belching, of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth.
coughingnoun	A cough; the act of coughing.
aspirationnoun	The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
dry heaveverb	Alternative form of dry-heave. [To attempt to vomit with the ejection of only gas.]
heavenoun	(countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
ebullitionnoun	The act of boiling.