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ex·pec·to·rate    Audio Help   [ik-spek-tuh-reyt] Pronunciation Key verb, -rat·ed, -rat·ing.
–verb (used without object)
1.to eject or expel matter, as phlegm, from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting; spit.
–verb (used with object)
2.to eject or expel (matter) in this way.

[Origin: 1595–1605; < L expectorātus (ptp. of expectorāre to expel from the breast), equiv. to ex- ex-1 + pector- (s. of pectus) breast + -ātus -ate1]

ex·pec·to·ra·tor, noun
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ex·pec·to·rate    Audio Help   (ĭk-spěk'tə-rāt')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   ex·pec·to·rat·ed, ex·pec·to·rat·ing, ex·pec·to·rates

v.   tr.
  1. To eject from the mouth; spit.
  2. To cough up and eject by spitting.

v.   intr.
  1. To spit.
  2. To clear out the chest and lungs by coughing up and spitting out matter.


[Latin expectorāre, expectorāt-, to drive from the chest : ex-, ex- + pectus, pector-, chest.]

ex·pec'to·ra'tion n.
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expectorate 
1601, "to clear out the chest or lungs," from L. expectoratus, pp. of expectore "scorn, expel from the mind," lit. "make a clean breast," from ex- "out" + pectus (gen. pectoris) "breast." Use as a euphemism for "spit" is first recorded 1827. Original sense in expectorant (1811).

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expectorate

verb
1. clear out the chest and lungs; "This drug expectorates quickly" 
2. discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth 

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Expectorate

Ex*pec"to*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expectorated; p. pr. & vb. n. Expectorating.] [L. expecrorare to drive from the breast; ex out + pectus, pectiris, breast. See Pectoral.] To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Expectorate

Ex*pec"to*rate\, v. i. To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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