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expectorate

verb

ex·​pec·​to·​rate ik-ˈspek-tə-ˌrāt How to pronounce expectorate (audio)
expectorated; expectorating

transitive verb

1
: to eject from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting
2
: spit

intransitive verb

1
: to discharge matter from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting
2
: spit
expectoration noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Places where people might need to talk loudly, sing, or otherwise expectorate without a mask are seen as riskier than those where everyone can easily wear a mask at all times. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020 Of course, there’s never been any such game where players young and old didn’t expectorate freely. Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 8 May 2020 When Andrei blasts Matvey with a shotgun, blowing apart one of his sofa cushions, which in turn expectorates a bunch of American dollars, those deeper motives becomes obvious. Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020

Word History

Etymology

Latin expectoratus, past participle of expectorare to banish from the mind (taken to mean literally "to expel from the chest"), from ex- + pector-, pectus breast, soul — more at pectoral

First Known Use

1601, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

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The first known use of expectorate was in 1601
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