expectorate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cough up fluid from the lungs. ambitransitive
    — These rules are equally applicable to pneumonia and perhaps also to bronchitis. It will, therefore, be best to call them, not rules for consumptives, but for all persons who cough and expectorate .
  2. To spit. ambitransitive

词形变化

expectorates present,singular,third-person expectorating participle,present expectorated participle,past expectorated past

词汇关系

衍生词
expectorative expectorator unexpectorated
相关词
expectorant expectoration sputum

词源

From Latin expectorātus, past participle of expectorō (“(only figurative) banish from the mind; (post-classical) expel from the breast)”), from ex (“out of”) + pectus (“the breast”).
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