wheeze

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wheeze1 /wiːz/ verb [intransitive]  MIBREATHEto breathe with difficulty, making a noise in your throat and chest 气喘吁吁，呼呼地喘气► see thesaurus at breathe→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

wheeze• Thought of fat Goldberg shuffling round the glass in the little room, rubbing his unshaven cheeks, wheezing.• People with asthma may start to wheeze.• He was stocky and wheezed a little.• After a 13-month stint, the wheezing and frail Chernenko died in March 1985 at age 73.• There was fluid in my lungs, rattling and wheezing at every breath.• I wheezed at them, and they nodded.• After all, just fifteen years ago, most analysts thought Disney was a tired, wheezing firm.• The ragged figure shook with fury, his breath wheezing in and out of his tiny frame.• The scarves sag, the whistles wheeze, one last outsize banana droops.• When she coughed she made a terrible wheezing sound.• His asthma was acting up and he wheezed throughout the show.

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wheeze2 noun [countable]  1. MIBREATHEthe act or sound of wheezing 气喘；气喘声2. British English old-fashionedPLAN a clever and amusing idea or plan 巧妙的主意；把戏3. American English an old joke that no one thinks is funny now 〔不再好笑的〕过时笑话

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wheeze• He reminded Harry, in his build, expression and asthmatic wheeze, of a bulldog peering ill-humouredly from his kennel.• Juvenile has a shrill persistent wheeze.• The wheeze was simple: to change their shape from square to round.• We hope that woodworkers of all types will send in their wheezes, as readers are always asking for more tips.Origin wheeze1 (1400-1500) Probably from a Scandinavian language

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breathe difficulty, to making Corpus your in throat a with noise

wheeze

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wheeze¹ /wiːz/ verb [intransitive] to breathe with difficulty, making a noise in your throat and chest
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ breathe [intransitive and transitive] to take air into your lungs and send it out again: Mary knew he was asleep because he was breathing deeply. | He breathed the clear spring air.
   ▪ sigh to breathe out slowly and make a noise that shows you are disappointed, tired, relieved etc: She just sighed and shook her head. | ‘Never mind,’ he sighed. ‘I’m sure there’ll be other opportunities.’
   ▪ pant to breathe quickly and noisily through your mouth, because you have been using a lot of effort: They were panting by the time they got to the finish line.
   ▪ gasp to breathe very quickly and deeply and with difficulty: Her eyes were wide, and she was gasping for breath. | ‘Do you think you can walk?’ ‘I’ll try to,’ he gasped.
   ▪ snore to breathe noisily while you are sleeping: I couldn’t sleep because my husband was snoring.
   ▪ wheeze to breathe with difficulty, making a noise in your throat and chest, because you are ill: His asthma was making him wheeze.
   ▪ be out of breath to be unable to breathe easily, especially because you have been running or doing other exercise: I was out of breath by the time we reached the top of the hill.
   ▪ be short of breath to be unable to breathe easily, especially because you are unhealthy: Because she was so overweight, she was often short of breath.

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wheeze² noun [countable]
1. the act or sound of wheezing
2. British English old-fashioned a clever and amusing idea or plan
3. American English an old joke that no one thinks is funny now