Definitions

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  • noun The quality or symptom of breathing with an audible wheeze
  • verb Present participle of wheeze.

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  • adjective relating to breathing with a whistling sound

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Examples

  • I wedge a pillow behind her and she eases back, wheezing from the effort.

    Fostering Nina « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • It was the best I'd felt all day, and I was wheezing from the ouch of it all.

    Rockin' good times at the ER moriarty6 2006

  • "Who -- me?" called a wheezing voice right in his ear.

    The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales Arthur Scott Bailey 1913

  • Experiencing respiratory symptoms with the allergy, however — such as wheezing or runny nose — strongly predicts the likelihood that the allergy will persist considerably longer into childhood.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Steve Carper 2006

  • Experiencing respiratory symptoms with the allergy, however — such as wheezing or runny nose — strongly predicts the likelihood that the allergy will persist considerably longer into childhood.

    Respiratory Symptoms Mean Cow's Milk Allergy Lasts Longer in Children Steve Carper 2006

  • One is the perceived lack of control over one's environment that mold can create and the other is mold-related health problems such as wheezing, fatigue and colds.

    Mold and Moods 2007

  • Probably "wheezing" but where do they hire these people???

    bettyalready Diary Entry bettyalready 2005

  • He sighed, the kind of wheezing noise a leather pillow sometimes makes when one sits on it.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • I wonder whether this was only a coincidence or did that firearm, when used, emit a kind of wheezing sound?

    Cranberry Jello Tarassuk, Leonid 1978

  • The Dobermans would anonymously announce the attack with their rapid quiet padding of paws and a perverse kind of wheezing; but by then it was too late.

    Above the Clouds at Thirty Below 1944

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