Wheeze Definition

wēz, hwēz
wheezed, wheezes, wheezing
verb
To breathe hard with a whistling, breathy sound, as in asthma.
Webster's New World
To make a sound like this.
The old organ wheezed.
Webster's New World
To utter with a sound of wheezing.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
An act or sound of wheezing.
Webster's New World
An overworked or trite remark, joke, or gag.
Webster's New World
A clever scheme.
American Heritage

An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.

Wiktionary

(slang) Something very humorous or laughable.

The new comedy is a wheeze.
You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze!
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Wheeze

Noun

Singular:
wheeze
Plural:
wheezes

Origin of Wheeze

  • From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kwes- (“to pant").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English whesen probably from Old Norse hvæsa to hiss kwes- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Wheeze Sentence Examples

  • Walking up hill made him wheeze.

  • The old dog would wheeze after running.

  • The steam engine made a sound like a person's breathe when they wheeze.

  • My mother's asthma makes her wheeze.

  • I could not hear anything except when he would wheeze when he would breathe.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

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