English-Italian translations for cough

• tosse
  Siamo anche riusciti a salvare le pastiglie per la tosse; è stato veramente imbarazzante doverlo fare. We have also managed to rescue cough lozenges; how embarrassing that we had to do that.
  Signor Presidente, Janssen van Raay, il non fumatore, deve la sua tossetta a coloro che invece fumano. Mr President, as a non-smoker I have others who smoke to thank for my cough.
  A distanza di 2-10 giorni i malati di SARS accusano una tosse che provoca difficoltà respiratorie. After two to ten days SARS patients may develop a cough that might progress to difficulties in breathing.
• tossire
• colpo di tosse

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