clear one's throat (third-person singular simple present clears one's throat, present participle clearing one's throat, simple past and past participle cleared one's throat)
- Forcibly, sometimes mutedly, expelling air from one's lungs, sometimes to clear mucus, sometimes to attract attention to something; less vigorous than coughing.
forcibly expulsing air from one's lungs
- Arabic: تَنَحْنَحَ (tanaḥnaḥa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 清嗓子 (qīngsǎngzi)
- Czech: odkašlat si pf, odkašlávat si impf
- Danish: rømme
- Finnish: rykiä (fi), kakoa (fi), kakistella (fi)
- French: se racler la gorge (fr)
- German: sich räuspern (de)
- Hungarian: köszörüli a torkát (hu), megköszörüli a torkát
- Icelandic: ræskja sig
- Italian: raschiare (it)
- Latin: screō, cōnscreor
- Maori: wharo, whawharo, wharowharo
- Norman: râqu'ter
- Norwegian: kremte, rømme (no)
- Plautdietsch: kjrechen
- Polish: odchrząkiwać impf, odchrząknąć (pl) pf
- Russian: прочищать горло (pročiščatʹ gorlo)
- Slovak: odkašlať si pf
- Spanish: carraspear (es), aclararse la voz, destoserse (es)
- Swedish: harkla (sv)
- Vietnamese: tằng hắng (vi), đằng hắng, dặng hắng, hắng giọng
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