coughed up

verb

past tense of cough up
as in relinquished
to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress finally got my brother to cough up the dough he owed me

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Recent Examples of coughed up The Fever coughed up 17 turnovers. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026 Painter has coughed up precisely two homers in each of his two previous starts. — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026 No, that part was, deGrom coughed up that first-inning grand slam and still came out of this as the winning pitcher. — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 26 June 2026 Peterson shortly after coughed up his eighth turnover with 10 seconds to play and Utah up 100-97. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 5 July 2026 Weathers has coughed up multiple homers in five of his 13 starts this season, but big flies have been particularly problematic for him over his last three games. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026 Miguel Rojas moved from second base to third then to the mound in the ninth inning and coughed up home runs to both Brett Sullivan and Kyle Karros. — Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 27 May 2026 Michael Mimoun, a thirty-nine-year-old from Brooklyn who works in property management, coughed up five hundred dollars to watch there with a group of family and friends, including two five-year-olds. — Dan Greene, New Yorker, 20 June 2026 Busch coughed up some blood and was experiencing shortness of breath on Wednesday while getting ready for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. — Wayne Sterling, CNN Money, 23 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coughed up
  1. relinquished
  2. rendered
  3. surrendered
  4. delivered
  5. turned over
  6. turned in
  7. handed over
Verb
  • Willow Nightingale relinquished the championship in May due to a shoulder injury that also forced her out of the Owen Hart Foundation Tournament, leading AEW to create this match to crown a new champion.
    — Rob Wolkenbrod, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Neusch relinquished fire control to the bio-andy’s tactical routines.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of relinquished
Verb
  • The rain had rendered the dirt tracks we were meant to use … um, unusable.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 July 2026
  • The responding officers rendered first aid to the victims before they were taken to local hospitals.
    — Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of rendered
Verb
  • Records seized during a May 1 search warrant showed that at least 918 dogs were transferred or surrendered to Miranda’s Rescue between January 2025 and April 2026.
    — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
  • Charlotte Mecklenburg Animal Care and Control is no longer accepting non-emergency owner surrendered animals due to overcrowding.
    — Eva Flowe July 1, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026
Definition of surrendered
Verb
  • Get all your last-minute essentials delivered to your doorstep with DoorDash.
    — Rachel Cortez, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Colombia’s goal wasn’t perfectly executed but was delivered with emphasis.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2026
Definition of delivered
Verb
  • At least 10 states have voluntarily turned over the personal information of millions of voters to the Justice Department.
    — Toluse Olorunnipa, The Atlantic, 4 July 2026
  • At this point, all the waters in the lake have literally turned over.
    — Jack G. Mell, Outdoor Life, 2 July 2026
Definition of turned over
Verb
  • The longtime anchor turned in-house animal advocate revealed she is laid up, with not one but two hernias.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
  • On the mound, Trevor McDonald turned in his best outing of the year, allowing just one hit over six shutout innings.
    — Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
Definition of turned in
Verb
  • Hours later, as the bodies of the children were being handed over to their families, scenes of anguish unfolded outside hospitals and in the neighborhood on the outskirts of Lahore where the private tutoring center was located in a house.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • Hours later, as the bodies of the children were being handed over to their families, scenes of anguish unfolded outside hospitals and in the neighborhood on the outskirts of Lahore where the private tutoring center was located in a house.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
Definition of handed over

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