Wheeze

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  • intransitive verb. To breathe with difficulty, producing a hoarse whistling sound.
  • intransitive verb. To make a sound resembling laborious breathing.
  • intransitive verb. To produce or utter with a hoarse whistling sound.
  • noun. A wheezing sound.
  • noun. An old joke.
  • noun. A clever scheme.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To breathe hard; puff and blow; breathe with difficulty and audibly.
  • noun. A puffing or blowing, especially as in labored breathing.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
  • noun. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
  • noun. An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the “stage whisper.” It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
  • noun. An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
  • noun. An ulterior scheme or plan
  • noun. Something very humorous or laughable.
  • verb. To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. breathing with a husky or whistling sound
  • noun. (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
  • verb. breathe with difficulty
  • Word Usage
    "One short-term wheeze is that the day after the May elections and referendum – whoever has won – Cameron and Nick Clegg will do a joint press conference renewing their rose-garden vows."
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    wheezed  wheezing  
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