The body
Synonyms for cough
The synonym for cough recorded in this bank is hack, in the sense "to expel air from the lungs abruptly and noisily". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for cough
- hackverb, in the sense "to expel air from the lungs abruptly and noisily"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day cough is audited in a second meaning.
to expel air from the lungs abruptly and noisily
Smokers often cough more heavily in the morning.
The true synonym
hack
Same sentence, swapped: Smokers often hack more heavily in the morning.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for cough in the sentence quoted.
- wheeze
- sniffle
- gag
Where cough turns up in the game
cough is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play cough
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cough reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other the body words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. cough carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.