English Explanatory Dictionary

clear one's throat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To forcibly, sometimes mutedly, expel air from one's lungs, sometimes to clear mucus, sometimes to attract attention to something; less vigorously than to cough.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-clear one's throat.wav

Word forms

clear one's throat clears one's throat clearing one's throat cleared one's throat

Related words

frog in one's throat ahem hem and haw loogie phlegm sputum
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