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- noun Plural form of
cough . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
cough .
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Examples
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She thought she was around seventy, maybe, and had seen three of her six children die from what she called coughs and swelling.
Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007
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She thought she was around seventy, maybe, and had seen three of her six children die from what she called coughs and swelling.
Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007
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She thought she was around seventy, maybe, and had seen three of her six children die from what she called coughs and swelling.
Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007
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She thought she was around seventy, maybe, and had seen three of her six children die from what she called coughs and swelling.
Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007
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"The w'y 'e coughs is somethin' terrible," volunteered my sweated friend, referring to the dying boy.
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Marcia got tired of my weird creeping around the lawn talking to nobody, and of being sea-sick on the waterbed, and of the coughs from the basement, and of her runny nose from my Wild Country, and of having sore muscles and blisters from gardening and canning.
Babies Gary Moshimer 2010
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Three days of the daughter having high temperatures, sniffles, and coughs is quite enough, thank you.
With Highs Over a Hundred eddvick 2007
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` The w'y 'e coughs is somethin' terrible, 'volunteered my sweated friend, referring to the dying boy.
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She's asleep as she coughs, which is no small miracle.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2001
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I too suffered from it in some degree, as I always do, more or less; but this time, it brought me no reinforcement of colds and coughs, which is what I dread the most.
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891
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