Synonyms of the word

coughing

• v. present participle of cough.
• n. A cough; the act of coughing.

cough

• v. (intransitive) To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.
• v. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise like a cough.
• n. A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.
• n. A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.
• n. Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame.

exhalation

• n. The act or process of exhaling; breathing out.
• n. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam;.
• n. A bright phenomenon; a meteor.

expiration

• n. The act of expiring.
• n. The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth.
• n. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
• n. (euphemistic) The last emission of breath; death.
• n. A cessation, extinction, ending.
• n. That which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

symptom

• n. (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease…
• n. (figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else,…