wheeze
Use Wheeze in a sentence
verb (used without object)
1.
to breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound: Asthma caused him to wheeze.
2.
to make a sound resembling difficult breathing: The old locomotive wheezed into the station.
noun
3.
a wheezing breath or sound.
4.
an old and frequently used joke, saying, story, etc.
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English whese (v.), probably < Old Norse hvæsa to hiss
1425–75; late Middle English whese (v.), probably < Old Norse hvæsa to hiss
Related forms
wheez·er, noun
wheez·ing·ly, adverb
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World English Dictionary
wheeze (wiːz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to breathe or utter (something) with a rasping or whistling sound |
| 2. | (intr) to make or move with a noise suggestive of wheezy breathing |
| —n | |
| 3. | a husky, rasping, or whistling sound or breathing |
| 4. | slang (Brit) a trick, idea, or plan (esp in the phrase good wheeze) |
| 5. | informal a hackneyed joke or anecdote |
| [C15: probably from Old Norse hvǣsa to hiss] | |
| 'wheezer | |
| —n | |
| 'wheezy | |
| —adj | |
| 'wheezily | |
| —adv | |
| 'wheeziness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
wheeze
c.1460, probably from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. hvoesa "to hiss," Dan. hvæse) cognate with O.E. hwæst "act of blowing," hwosan "to cough," from an imitative base. The noun is first recorded 1834.
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Medical Dictionary
wheeze (wēz)
v. wheezed, wheez·ing, wheez·es
To breathe with difficulty, producing a hoarse whistling sound. n.
A wheezing sound.
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Example sentences
The wheeze, however, seems to have been too clever by half.
Down the hall, her father was coughing, a wheeze without any charm to it.
In many ways this money-laundering would be a clever wheeze.
Raucous voices blare at us in taxis, and even our apartments are filled with the asthmatic wheeze of the air-conditioner.
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