Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Promoting or facilitating the secretion or expulsion of phlegm, mucus, or other matter from the respiratory tract.
- n. An expectorant medicine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or promoting expectoration.
- n. Something, as a drug, which promotes or facilitates expectoration.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Med.) Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a medicine promoting expectoration
Examples
“Correctly spelling "expectorant" - and 19 other words - on Sunday won Abington Heights Middle School sixth-grader Sukanya Roy The Times Leader / Scripps NEPA Regional Spelling Bee on Sunday at the Woodlands.”
“Correctly spelling "expectorant" - and 19 other words - on Sunday won Abington Middle School sixth-grader Sukanya Roy The Times Leader / Scripps NEPA Regional Spelling Bee on Sunday at the Woodlands.”
“MOST chesty coughs require what are known as expectorant medicines.”
“Sue Roy, a sixth-grader at Abington Heights Middle School, visualizes the spelling of the word 'expectorant' Sunday.”
“Fluids, rest, an expectorant, and perhaps a broad-spectrum antibiotic like azithromycin - if there's a fever and productive cough - are the tried-and-true treatments for this thing.”
“They return with a cool, juniper-based expectorant that loosens the blockage, rumoured to be the size of a 7½-inch Cohiba.6.14pm The bloke from the R&A begins his speech.9.43pm The bloke from the R&A finishes his speech.”
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“Rataptouille: A French dish combining tomatoes, garlic, onions, zucchini and the expectorant of a disgruntled sous-chef.”
The Washington Post: Week 887: A new contest: We give you a line, you write the rest of the limerick
“Watercress is thought to be an effective expectorant that helps to expel excess mucus and is believed to relieve bronchitis, coughs, and mucus in the lungs.”
“Brutish and moneygrubbing to the last, punctuating their sentences with expectorant, they are repugnant to Won Kim.”
“Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum), a member of the Zingiberaceae (Ginger) Family, is an expectorant, thus helping to open the respiratory passages.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘expectorant’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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I'b sorry. I hab a cold.
Barious items you bight need when you hab a cold.
Kleenex, cough drops, cough syrup, hand sanitizer, water, orange juice, hankie, handkerchief, Purple Drank, tissues, decongestant, expectorant and 16 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words to remember from DFW's "Infinite Jest"
wen, matriculation, circumflex, lapidary, effete, sotto, hypertrophy, presbyopic, ideogram, pinion, parquet, nelson and 152 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Words!
expiate, litote, quixotic, expectorant, brakish, animadversion, militated, garish, rrulous, desiderate, desiderata, desideratum and 131 more...
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verbal velvet
shredded lettuce, cellar, smitten, wassail, nuts, muff, beaver, obligatory, secretions, phlegm, naivete, expectorant and 7 more...
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chud's Words
somnambulist, shibboleth, soporific, banal, tripe, felicity, odoriferous, holistic, idiopathic, euphemism, colicky, contusion and 64 more...
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