2. To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed
himself hoarse.
[1913 Webster]
{To cough down}, to silence or put down (an objectionable speaker) by simulated coughing. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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