Definitions of wheeze [ʰwiz, wiz]

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Definition of 'wheeze'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.i.) wheeze
to breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound:
Asthma caused him to wheeze.

2. wheeze
to make a sound resembling difficult breathing.

3. (n.) wheeze
a wheezing breath or sound.

4. wheeze
an old and frequently used joke, saying, story, etc.

Etymology: (1425–75; late ME whese (v.), prob. < ON hvæsa to hiss)

Definition of 'wheeze'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) wheeze
breathing with a husky or whistling sound

2. (verb) wheeze
(Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
"a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat"

3. (verb) wheeze
breathe with difficulty

Definition of 'wheeze'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) wheeze
a piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration

2. (noun) wheeze
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

3. (verb) wheeze
to breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma

Translation of 'wheeze'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to breathe with a hissing sound and with difficulty.
Afrikaans: roggel	Arabic: يَئِز، يَتَنَفَّس بِصُعوب	Bulgarian: дишам трудно
Brazilian: ofegar	Czech: sípat	German: keuchen
Danish: trække vejret med en pibe	Greek: ασθμαίνω	Spanish: resollar, jadear, respira
Estonian: hingeldama	Farsi: با صدا نفس کشيدن	Finnish: vinkua
French: respirer bruyamment	Hebrew: לִנשוֹם בִּכבֵדוּת	Hindi: घरघराहट के साथ सांस लेना
Croatian: hripati, dahtati	Hungarian: zihál	Indonesian: bernapas sengal-sengal
Icelandic: anda með erfiðismunum, má	Italian: ansimare	Japanese: ぜいぜいいう
Korean: 헐떡거리다	Lithuanian: švokšti	Latvian: sēkt
Malay: berdehit	Dutch: piepen	Norwegian: hive etter pusten, hvese,
Polish: sapać	Portuguese: silvar	Romanian: a respira greu
Russian: дышать с присвистом	Slovak: dychčať, fučať, chripieť	Slovenian: sopsti
Serbian: teško disati	Swedish: väsa, rossla	Thai: หายใจลำบากและมีเสียงฟืดฟา
Turkish: hırıltıyla solumak, hırıl	Taiwanese: 氣喘吁吁	Ukrainian: дихати з присвистом; хрип
Urdu: خرخراہٹ کے ساتھ سانس لینا	Vietnamese: thở khò khè	Chinese: 喘息
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