WHEEZE
\wˈiːz], \wˈiːz], \w_ˈiː_z]\
Definitions of WHEEZE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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breathe with difficulty
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(Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick; "a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat"
By Princeton University
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To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
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A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
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A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To breathe noisily with difficulty: to make a whisting noise; as, the pump wheezes.
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A whistling or gasping breath, as in asthma.
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Wheezy.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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WHEEZING.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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