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expectorate +‎ -ant

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Noun

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expectorant (plural expectorants)

  1. (medicine) An agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs.
    • 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 165:
      The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest [], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60:
      The bedside table is littered with both OTC and prescription expectorants and pertussives and analgesics and Vitamin-C megaspansules []

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Adjective

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expectorant (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Causing or assisting the expulsion of phlegm.
    an expectorant preparation
    • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84:
      ‘Matchett says there’s old Mr P. who made all the money with ’is cought mixture—’ ‘Not Parkinsons ex . . . something?’ asked Jessamy. ‘That’s it,’ nodded Sarah, ‘ “Hexpectorant Posset”.’
    Synonym: expectorative
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Verb

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expectorant

  1. gerund of expectorar

French

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Participle

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expectorant

  1. present participle of expectorer

Adjective

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expectorant (feminine expectorante, masculine plural expectorants, feminine plural expectorantes)

  1. expectorant (causing or assisting the expulsion of phlegm)

Noun

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expectorant m (plural expectorants)

  1. expectorant (agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs)

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French expectorant.

Adjective

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expectorant m or n (feminine singular expectorantă, masculine plural expectoranți, feminine and neuter plural expectorante)

  1. expectorant

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