Wheeze

Quick meaning: Wheeze is a verb meaning To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

Meaning

To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

More Meanings

1. To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
2. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
3. (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.
4. A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
5. An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
6. (slang) To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.
7. (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.

Example Sentences

Didn’t catch me napping that wheeze.

Elsie wheezed, laughter swelling her bosom.

The man wheezed, his laughter like an accordion whine.

If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.

Word Forms

• wheezes
• wheezing
• wheezed

Synonyms for wheeze

Depending on context, synonyms include joke, gag, jest, laugh, yak.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gag, laugh, jest, joke, yak, whee.

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