Cough

Definition

cough /kɒf; US kↄ:f/ v ၁။ ေခ်ာင္းဆိုးသည္။ ေခ်ာင္းဟန္႔သည္။ He was coughing and sneezing/ wheezing/ spluttering. ❍ have a coughing fit. ❍ She was coughing (away) all night. ၂။ ~ sth (up) ေခ်ာင္းျဖင့္ဟက္ထုတ္သည္။ He'd been coughing (up) blood. ၃။ (စက္သံ)ဖြတ္ခ်က္ဖြတ္ခ်က္ ျမည္သည္။ The engine coughed and spluttered into life. n ၁။ [C] ေခ်ာင္းဆိုးျခင္း။ ေခ်ာင္းဟန္႔ျခင္း။ ေခ်ာင္းသံ။ She gave a little/ gentle/ polite cough to attract my attention. ၂။ [sing] ေခ်ာင္းဆိုးနာ။ My cough's nearly better now. ❍ He developed a dry irritating cough. ❍ cough medicine/ mixture (ie taken to relieve a cough). See also WHOOPING COUGH ❏ cough (sth) up [ PHRV ]( infml ) မေျပာခ်င္ေျပာခ်င္ ေျပာ သည္။ မေပးခ်င္ေပးခ်င္ ေပးသည္။ He owes us money, but he won't cough (it) up.

Examples

1. My chest felt painful
2. and I was coughing uncontrollably.
3. The engine coughed into life.