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 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 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 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 The Fever coughed up 17 turnovers. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 June 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 Painter has coughed up precisely two homers in each of his two previous starts. — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 12 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 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
  • Around 2021, this collector relinquished 34 objects (including the bronze Buddhas).
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2026
  • Briscoe came out of the pits with the lead with 42 laps to go and never relinquished it despite a strong push from Bell.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2026
Definition of relinquished
Verb
  • Even for those in the financial ‘elite’ that Newcastle hope to join soon, vast transfer spending has rendered sales increasingly integral.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • The project was born from Hebden’s long-running Spotify playlist, which has swelled to more than 2,300 songs and 192 hours of music in its decade of existence, and whose title is also rendered in a perpetually changing string of Wingdings.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 July 2026
Definition of rendered
Verb
  • The sheriff's office said the inmate heard the K-9 unit and surrendered, being taken back into custody without further incident.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 13 July 2026
  • The tipping point came when Wrobleski surrendered eight runs to the Washington Nationals in his first start last season.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
Definition of surrendered
Verb
  • American viewers are used to seeing their football coverage delivered by Brits and/or other Europeans.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • Grid Dynamics says the platform has delivered measurable gains, including inspection cycles up to 1,000 times faster and anomaly detection 24 times quicker in industrial deployments.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 17 July 2026
Definition of delivered
Verb
  • The entire election board has turned over, and a new elections director is in charge.
    — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
  • The federal government this week finally turned over evidence to Minnesota prosecutors in the killings of Good and Pretti.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 16 July 2026
Definition of turned over
Verb
  • The Sacramento Kings turned in an embarrassing performance in the NBA Summer League on Tuesday.
    — Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
  • Star players like Norway’s Erling Haaland, England’s Harry Kane, France’s Kylian Mbappe, and Argentina’s Lionel Messi have turned in dramatic performances.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 14 July 2026
Definition of turned in
Verb
  • His office said it would probably be handed over to a police museum.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
  • The attorneys, hired by Valdes’ mother, Kristy Dee Garcia, said the Miami Police Department has not handed over to them any evidence, including an unredacted incident report, witness statements or officers’ body camera footage.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026
Definition of handed over

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