The hot chicken soup made it easier for him to expectorate the phlegm from his lungs.
How about this: "You're the spitting image of my mother, so how could I ever expectorate with you???"
when my mom had pneumonia, she would often expectorate phlegm like mucus.
An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word. An antonym that can be used for the word expectorate is suppress.
Expectorate
If you find it difficult to expectorate cough mucus, use a vaporizer to help soften it before trying to cough.
spit
During my cold, my congestion made frequent expectoration necessary.
The proper word for spitting is to expectorate.
Cough, bark, choke, convulse, expectorate, hack, hawk, hem, vomit, whoop
Pector- is a root or prefix meaning chest, so the word implies that the source is the lungs.
Some other words for the noun spit are spittle, slobber, slaver, and sputum. Another word for the verb spit is expectorate.
Saliva (noun) or expectorate (verb).