Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Promoting or facilitating the secretion or expulsion of phlegm, mucus, or other matter from the respiratory tract.
- noun An expectorant medicine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or promoting expectoration.
- noun Something, as a drug, which promotes or facilitates expectoration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
agent ordrug used to cause orinduce theexpulsion ofphlegm from thelungs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a medicine promoting expectoration
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Examples
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Correctly spelling "expectorant" - and 19 other words - on Sunday won Abington Middle School sixth-grader Sukanya Roy The Times Leader / Scripps NEPA Regional Spelling Bee on Sunday at the Woodlands.
Times Leader News 2009
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MOST chesty coughs require what are known as expectorant medicines.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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Correctly spelling "expectorant" - and 19 other words - on Sunday won Abington Heights Middle School sixth-grader Sukanya Roy The Times Leader / Scripps NEPA Regional Spelling Bee on Sunday at the Woodlands.
Times Leader News 2009
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Sue Roy, a sixth-grader at Abington Heights Middle School, visualizes the spelling of the word 'expectorant' Sunday.
Times Leader News 2009
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Fluids, rest, an expectorant, and perhaps a broad-spectrum antibiotic like azithromycin - if there's a fever and productive cough - are the tried-and-true treatments for this thing.
Creeping Crud grrm 2010
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They return with a cool, juniper-based expectorant that loosens the blockage, rumoured to be the size of a 7½-inch Cohiba.6.14pm The bloke from the R&A begins his speech.9.43pm The bloke from the R&A finishes his speech.
MBMs we wish we'd done in 2011 – No2: Darren Clarke's Open celebration | Scott Murray 2011
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Rataptouille: A French dish combining tomatoes, garlic, onions, zucchini and the expectorant of a disgruntled sous-chef.
Week 887: A new contest: We give you a line, you write the rest of the limerick The Empress 2010
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Watercress is thought to be an effective expectorant that helps to expel excess mucus and is believed to relieve bronchitis, coughs, and mucus in the lungs.
Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010
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Brutish and moneygrubbing to the last, punctuating their sentences with expectorant, they are repugnant to Won Kim.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum), a member of the Zingiberaceae (Ginger) Family, is an expectorant, thus helping to open the respiratory passages.
generationnext commented on the word expectorant
I coughed a lot as a kid
March 30, 2007