Wheeze

What do we mean by wheeze?

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. intransitive verb

A wheezing sound. noun

An old joke. noun

A clever scheme. noun

A puffing or blowing, especially as in labored breathing. noun

To breathe hard; puff and blow; breathe with difficulty and audibly.

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. noun

To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma. intransitive verb

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. noun

To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma. verb

Breathing with a husky or whistling sound noun

(Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick noun

Breathe with difficulty verb

A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

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

(British, Irish) An ulterior scheme or plan

Something very humorous or laughable.

Words that are spelled similarly to wheeze:
wheeze, wheezy, heeze, weeze, cheeze, wheee.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word wheeze:
stridor, respiratory, kids, disease, specific, get.

Words that rhyme with wheeze:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe wheeze:
expiratory, old, asthmatic, audible, persistent, faint, slight, good, long, pitched, recurrent, loud, little, asthmatoid, ancient, unilateral, hoarse, occasional, monophonic, soft, low, thin, nocturnal, characteristic, dry, mild, bronchial, prolonged, episodic, husky, final, chronic, breathless, inspiratory, latest, localized, painful, severe, nasal, widespread, strangled, deep, slow, familiar, gentle, sibilant, induced, polyphonic, musical, jolly, sonorous, continuous, acute, rhythmic, feeble, shrill, agitated, quick, raspy, intermittent, steady, unpleasant, preliminary, bilateral, harsh, pneumatic, associated, quiet, desperate, tired, infantile, frequent, isolated, snort, transient, idiotic, brilliant, distinct, favourite, fixed, cavernous, guttural, blubbery, breathy.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective wheeze:
sigh, thunk, box.

Consonant match to wheeze:
wise, was, woes, whiz, ways, wiz, whizz, woos, wease, weighs, wows, wais, whys, wyse, weese, wiese, waas, wies, whirs, wurz, wirz.

Words that sound like wheeze:
wheeze, wees, wease, weese, wiese, weas, wese, was, ways, wise, woes, wiz, whiz, weighs, whys, woos, waz, wows, wais, wose, woz, waas, wys, wos, wez, wies, wihs, waze, waes, yse, wyes, waws, weise, wyse, wazz, whas, wiess, waise, wahs, yeas, hees, heese, heeze, we, wheels, wheat, wee, weeds, weezy, wheezy, wii, wes, weaves, wis, weat, weasle, weiss, weet, wie, wea, oui, wiss, wheezer, weis, wass, tweeze, wess, wice, weins, wase, wheezed, wers, weasy, weans, weee, wace, weer, woose, weems, wns, weens, wisse, wiens, weser, weisse, weals, wiehe, weech, weo, wirz, weah, weaser, wiet, wirs, joas, cuis, tweese, weea, weihe, woce.