Simple past tense and past participle of cough.(verb)
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Use "coughed" in a sentence
"Franklin coughed as he dragged Chrissy behind him."
"Johnny, in fact, had been born to the noise, moist air and flying lint of the mill, and had coughed from the day of his birth, afflicted with the lung disease that has invalided his mother."
"Oh right, program directors asked for that once upon a time, and the labels coughed it up."