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Soughing vs Coughing - What's the difference?

soughing | coughing |

As verbs the difference between soughing and coughing

is that soughing is while coughing is .

As nouns the difference between soughing and coughing

is that soughing is a rushing, rustling sound while coughing is a cough; the act of coughing.

soughing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rushing, rustling sound.
  • * D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    • So she sat, looking at the rain, listening to the many noiseless noises of it, and to the strange soughings of wind in upper branches, when there seemed to be no wind.

    coughing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cough; the act of coughing.
  • * 1855 , Anna Mary Howitt, A school of life (page 63)
    • The good signor's little address was received in a variety of ways: there were titterings and coughings , and there were also a few instances of noble and generous response to poor Leonard's action
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}