expectorate
Meaning of expectorate
- cough or spit out (phlegm) from the throat or lungs.
she was expectorating dirty coloured sputum
a sign asks visitors not to expectorate in the sinks
early 17th century (in the sense ‘enable sputum to be coughed up’, referring to medicine): from Latin expectorat- ‘expelled from the chest’, from the verb expectorare, from ex- ‘out’ + pectus, pector- ‘breast’.
Information about expectorate
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of expectorate is: expectorates.
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Hyphenation of expectorate
ex-pec-to-rate
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- expectorate is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Translation of expectorate
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