Usually means: Ejects saliva or mucus outward.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. expectorates: Merriam-Webster
  2. expectorates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. expectorates: Vocabulary.com
  4. expectorates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. expectorates: Wiktionary
  6. expectorates: Dictionary.com
  7. expectorates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expectorates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. expectorates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. expectorates: Medical dictionary

(Note: See expectorate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (expectorate)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To cough up fluid from the lungs.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To spit.
▸ Also see expectorate


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