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expectorate
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The others, sitting on the floor, backs to the wall and knees drawn up to chins, smoke their pipes and expectorate.
"I'll be damned if I know," he responded, looking around for some place to expectorate and finding none.
He is advised not to blow the nose, but to hawk as much of the secretion as possible backwards and then expectorate it.
He was sitting perched like a toad on the wood-box where he could expectorate with convenience into the ashpan of the stove.
On one occasion he was playing a very close game, in the midst of which he left the table to expectorate in the fireplace.
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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to expectorate, such as: hawk, spew, spit, and spit out.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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