expectorate
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin expectoratus, past participle of expectorare (“only fig. banish from the mind, but literally (as in modern use) expel from the breast”), from ex (“out of”) + pectus (“the breast”).
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expectorate (third-person singular simple present expectorates, present participle expectorating, simple past and past participle expectorated)
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to cough up fluid from the lungs
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spit — see spit
[edit] External links
- expectorate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- expectorate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- expectorate at OneLook Dictionary Search
