Definitions for expectorate

expectorate ex·pec·to·rate

Spelling: [ik-spek-tuh-reyt]
IPA: /ɪkˈspɛk təˌreɪt/

Expectorate is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 474 anagrams from letters in expectorate (aceeeoprttx).

Definitions for expectorate

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)

  1. to eject or expel (matter) in this way.

Origin of expectorate

1595-1605; Latin expectorātus (past participle of expectorāre to expel from the breast), equivalent to ex- ex-1 + pector- (stem of pectus) breast + -ātus

Examples for expectorate

He turns to expectorate, sweeping the large shop with a quick, watchful eye.

He stops of his own accord, however, to cough and expectorate—he has advanced tuberculosis.

The second day after my arrival I began to expectorate a little blood.

So, if I have,—why the devil don't you say it at once, and expectorate your spleen?

It is barbarous to expectorate in the temple of your faith, but that doubtless is an extreme case.

Both are very young, both chew tobacco and expectorate long, brown, wet lines of tobacco juice on to the floor.

The throat is dry and irritated, and there is a constant desire to expectorate.

The mucus accumulating during sleep often awakens the patient in efforts at hawking and spitting to detach and expectorate it.

So absorbed was his attention that he even forgot to expectorate.

Seller (falls into a brown study, from which he at length emerges to tap the nearest ewe on the forehead and expectorate).

Word Value for expectorate
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