expectorate

From Latin expectorātus, past participle of expectorāre (“only fig. banish from the mind, but literally (as in modern use) expel from the breast”), from ex (“out of”) + pectus (“the breast”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈspɛktəɹeɪt/

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expectorate (third-person singular simple present expectorates, present participle expectorating, simple past and past participle expectorated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To cough up fluid from the lungs.

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2. (transitive, intransitive) To spit.

• expectorant
• expectoration

• sputum

• “expectorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “expectorate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “expectorate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

expectorate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of expectorar combined with te