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start up stay up steam up steamed up step up stick up stick up for stink up stir up stirred up stop up stopped up stored up straighten up strike up string up stuck up suck up suck up to sum up summing up summon up sunny-side up swallow up sweep up swell up swept up swoop up swot up take up take up arms take up with taken up tart up team up tear up tee up tense up think up throw up tidy up tie up tied up tier up tighten up tog up togged up tone up toss up tot up tote up touch up touch up paint trice up trick up trip up true up trump up trumped up tune up turn up turn up the heat turn up the pressure turned up tying up up up and down up country up here up in arms up in the air up on up quark up the stairs up to up to her neck up to his neck up to my neck up to now up to our necks up to their necks up to your neck use up used up using up vamp up vomit up wake up waking up wall up warm up wash up washed up well up whip up whomp up whoop it up whooping cough wind up wipe up wise up work up 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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb cough up has 2 senses

• cough up(v = verb.possession) pony up, spit up - give reluctantly; "He coughed up some money for his children's tuition"
is one way to give
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• cough up(v = verb.body) cough out, expectorate, spit out, spit up - discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth; Array
is one way to discharge, eject, exhaust, expel, release
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

ROGET THESAURUS

cough up

Payment

VB pay, defray, make payment, paydown, pay on the nail, pay ready money, pay at sight, pay in advance, cash, honor a bill, acknowledge, redeem, pay in kind, pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing, pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs, do the needful, shell out, fork out, cough up, fork over, come down with, come down with the dust, tickle the palm, grease the palm, expend, put down, lay down, discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of, foot the bill, account with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with, strike a balance, settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts with, quit scores, wipe off old scores, clear off old scores, satisfy, pay in full, satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands, clear, liquidate, pay up, pay old debts, disgorge, make repayment, repay, refund, reimburse, retribute, make compensation, pay by credit card, put it on the plastic.

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