clear one's throat (English, verb)
expansion: 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)
Senses:
glosses: To forcibly, sometimes mutedly, expell air from one's lungs, sometimes to clear mucus, sometimes to attract attention to something; less vigorously than to cough.
Forms:
form: clears one's throat
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clearing one's throat
tags: participle
present
form: cleared one's throat
tags: participle
past
form: cleared one's throat
tags: past