English-French translations for cough

• toux
  Les analgésiques, les médicaments contre la toux, les complexes vitaminés relèvent de cette catégorie. Simple pain relievers, cough medicines, vitamin supplements are cases in point.
  Nous avons également réussi à sauver les pastilles pour la toux; comme il est embarrassant que nous ayons dû le faire. We have also managed to rescue cough lozenges; how embarrassing that we had to do that.
  J'ai vu des familles vivant dans des grottes, les parois ruisselantes d'eau et j'ai entendu la toux d'enfants brûlants de fièvre. I saw families living in caves, the walls running with water, and listened to the hacking coughs of children racked with fever.
• tousser
  Au bout de deux à dix jours, les personnes atteintes du SRAS peuvent se mettre à tousser, puis finir par éprouver des difficultés respiratoires. After two to ten days SARS patients may develop a cough that might progress to difficulties in breathing.

Definition of cough

• To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion
• To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing
• To make a noise like a cough
• A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary
• A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough

Examples

• I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough
• Sometimes she coughed (up) blood
• The engine coughed and sputtered
• Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.
• Sorry, I cant come to work today – Ive got a nasty cough.
• He was – cough – indisposed.

Related words

• coughing
• hiccough
• cougher
• anticough
• Burscough
• Coughton
• Scoughall
• cough medicine
• cough syrup