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Third Person
expectorates
Present Participle
expectorating
Past Tense
expectorated
Past Participle
expectorated
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to cough and spit a kind of thick, liquid substance out of the lungs
- Doctors advise drinking plenty of fluids to make it easier to expectorate.
- The syrup prescribed by the doctor helped her loosen the mucus and expectorate with less effort.
- She had to expectorate several times during her recovery from pneumonia.
- The smoker's cough caused him to frequently expectorate thick, unpleasant sputum.
- The patient was told to expectorate the mucus to clear his airways.