Definition for Expectorate:

• To eject matter from the air- passages or lungs by coughing and spitting; to cough up.

Synonyms for Expectorate:

• v.

  •change (verb)
  • expectorate.
  •cough (verb)
  • spitted up,
  • spitting up,
  • spat up,
  • cleared throat,
  • clearing throat,
  • clears throat,
  • spits up.
  •cough up (verb)
  • spew,
  • hawk.
  •emit (verb)
  • ex pends,
  • disembogues,
  • re eking,
  • re eked,
  • gave vent to,
  • ex crete,
  • ex-haled,
  • ex-pended,
  • ex-pends,
  • ex-haling,
  • ex pend,
  • casts out,
  • ex-cretes,
  • ex-hales,
  • ex haled,
  • sends forth,
  • giving vent to,
  • sent forth,
  • ex cretes,
  • ex haling,
  • ex-hale,
  • re-eking,
  • ex-pend,
  • ex pending,
  • gives vent to,
  • ex-pending,
  • ex-crete,
  • ex pire,
  • ex hale,
  • ex pended,
  • ex hales,
  • re-eked,
  • ex-pire.
  •spit (verb)
  • sizzing,
  • dis-charging,
  • spritzes,
  • sizzes,
  • dis-charges,
  • dis charged,
  • dis charging,
  • spritzed,
  • sizzed,
  • dis-charge,
  • dis-charged,
  • dis charges,
  • dis charge.

• Other synonyms:

  •cough
  • Hacking,
  • Hacked,
  • Hawked,
  • clear throat,
  • hawking.

Expectorate Sentence Examples:

• Most men a generation ago insisted on their right to expectorate in public because it was better for them to rid themselves of offensive material than to retain it.

• If the Disease has been of several Days Duration, when I have first been called; if the Fever is still very high; if there be a Difficulty of Breathing; if the Patient does not expectorate at all, or brings up too much Blood; without being too solicitous about the Day of the Disease, the Patient should be bled, though it were on the tenth.

Hyponym for Expectorate:

• v.

  • change
    withdraw, take, take away, remove.