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   expectorate

   /ɪkˈspɛktəreɪt/

   verb

   • 1. cough or spit out (phlegm) from the throat or lungs: "she was expectorating dirty coloured sputum"

   Word Origin early 17th century (in the sense ‘enable sputum to be coughed up’, referring to medicine): from Latin expectorat- ‘expelled from the chest’, from the verb expectorare, from ex- ‘out’ + pectus, pector- ‘breast’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. expectoration noun
   • 2. expectorator noun

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