cleared one's throat

A form of clear one's throat — To forcibly, sometimes mutedly, expel air from one's lungs, sometimes to clear mucus, sometimes to attract attention to something; less vigorously than to cough.

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of clear one's throat
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Chicago

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