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Definition of Clear the throat
1. Verb. Clear mucus or food from one's throat. "He cleared his throat before he started to speak"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clear The Throat
Literary usage of Clear the throat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders (1903)
"... tickling or the presence of some small object in the larynx, causing a frequent
desire to clear the throat. In severe instances deglutition is painful. ..."
2. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"To clear the throat, to utter a hem ; to appear consequential. KE'HINKE'HIHA, s.
Crying, squalling, fretting. Used of a fretful child. ..."
3. A dictionary of the German terms used in medicine by George Rogers Cutter (1879)
"Räuspern, vn (aux. haben) er reß., to hawk, hem, clear the throat. Räuspern,
n., hawking, clearing the throat, hemming. ..."
4. A Text-book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat by David Braden Kyle (1907)
"In either case there is a constant tendency to clear the throat. ... It is
decidedly superficial, and in attempting to clear the throat the sensation to the ..."
5. The Science and Art of Surgery by Edward Carroll Franklin (1873)
"To Clear the Throat.—Place the patient gently on the face, with one wrist under
the forehead. (All fluids, and the tongue itself, then fall forward, ..."
6. A Manual of Diseases of the Throat and Nose by Francke Huntington Bosworth (1881)
"... and irritation about the fauci some pain in deglutition, a feeling of fulness
in the fauces, and a disposition to hawk and clear the throat, etc. ..."
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