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Meanings of expectorate in English

Portuguese
expectorar
Catalan
expectorar

Discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth.

expectorar
Spanish
expectorar

Clear out the chest and lungs.

expectorar
Usage of expectorate in English
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Might stick it in your pocket, loudly, or expectorate on the carpet.
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
2
Sir George came hither yesterday, to expectorate with me, as he called it.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
3
The throat is dry and irritated, and there is a constant desire to expectorate.
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. /...
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Frogs would smoke, but I fancy they would expectorate too elaborately to be neighbourly.
Here are Ladies
5
Few patients, though receiving standard anti-tuberculous chemotherapy, expectorate tubercle bacilli continuously for more than a year.
Pubmed
6
The assay would be beneficial for rapid diagnosis of PTB for those adult patients who cannot expectorate sputum.
Pubmed
7
The pain was augmented during deglutition, and almost immediately afterward he commenced to expectorate great quantities of blood.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Private Wamphray, pausing to expectorate, continues-
All in It : K(1) Carries On
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He would expectorate and spit: Bah!
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov
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Conclusions: Sputum induction is effective in obtaining sputum in some patients with CAP who fail to expectorate a sample.
Pubmed
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If any one or anything goes by, he must watch it while in sight and then comment and expectorate.
Success with Small Fruits
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We are not even allowed to expectorate when and where we will, a privilege enjoyed by the merest savage.
A Handbook of Ethical Theory
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There was a nauseating, rancid taste to the stuff, but I dared not even raise my head to expectorate.
Under the Andes
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He began to expectorate blood-nounusual thing for him-butthis time to such extent that he feared the return of hemorrhage.
The Day of the Beast
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The girls expectorate to such an extent that the floor is nauseous with it; the little girls practise spitting and are adepts at it.
The Woman Who Toils / Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen a...
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On one occasion he was playing a very close game, in the midst of which he left the table to expectorate in the fireplace.
General Scott
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Translations for expectorate
Catalan
expectorar
Expectorate through the time