DRY COUGH meaning: Cough without mucus or phlegm - OneLook

Usually means: Cough without mucus or phlegm.

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dry cough: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
dry cough: Wiktionary
dry cough: Dictionary.com
Dry cough: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
dry cough: TheFreeDictionary.com
dry cough: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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dry cough: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dry cough)

▸ noun: Coughing without expectoration of sputum.

Similar:

coughlessness, nonexertion, dustlessness, cigarettelessness, nonsecretion, sweatlessness, nonexpectation, driplessness, nonevaporation, dry sex, more...

Opposite:

wet cough, productive cough

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Similar:

coughlessness, nonexertion, dustlessness, cigarettelessness, nonsecretion, sweatlessness, nonexpectation, driplessness, nonevaporation, dry sex, more...

Opposite:

wet cough, productive cough

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