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Expectorate

verb
(past & past part. expectorated; pres. part. expectorating)
1.
Clear out the chest and lungs.  Synonyms: clear out, drive out.
2.
Discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth.  Synonyms: cough out, cough up, spit out, spit up.






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"Expectorate" Quotes from Famous Books



... millions were starving to death; how they cooled their heels in the hall for an hour or two while their invisible host finished his cigar; how their "hearts fluttered" when the seneschal gave them their final instructions in court etiquette—not to expectorate on the carpet or scratch the furniture—then trotted them in; how the crown prince graciously permitted them to stand with uncovered heads for a few moments in his august presence, and then managed to get rid of them without actually kicking them down stairs! He "shook hands" with the party ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann



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