hacking cough

noun

: a loud, dry cough
The patient has a hacking cough.

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The only sounds were the trill of someone’s cellphone alert and the dry, hacking cough coming from one of her sisters in the corner. Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025 An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas, and two nearby counties and continues as of early March 2025. Karen Dobos, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025 Doan, a music teacher at an elementary school in East Orange, N.J., had spent the previous week in bed with unusual fatigue and a deep, hacking cough. Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024 Modigliani’s death, then, is still a couple of years away, but a constant, hacking cough spells out his doom in the manner of classic melodrama. Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024 What a cold sounds like A dry hacking cough Cold symptoms Signs of a baby cough that may indicate a cold or the flu include a stuffy or runny nose and sore throat. Evan Forster, Parents, 17 June 2024 Symptoms often appear similar to those of the common cold at first but develop into a prolonged, hacking cough, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024

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“Hacking cough.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hacking%20cough. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.

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