wheeze
wheeze
Definition
wheeze (hwēz, wēz)
intransitive verb wheezed, wheez′·ing
- to breathe hard with a whistling, breathy sound, as in asthma
- to make a sound like this the old organ wheezed
Etymology: ME whesen < ON hvæsa, to hiss < IE base *wes-, to wheeze, snort > L queri, to lament
transitive verb
to utter with a sound of wheezing
noun
- an act or sound of wheezing
- Slang an overworked or trite remark, joke, or gag
wheez′er noun
wheez′·ingly adverb
wheeze
Synonyms
wheeze
Usage Examples
Object
- shortness: Symptoms of allergy include rash, wheezing, shortness of breath, and swelling of the face, lips, tongue or throat.
- tightness: This means salmeterol is used to prevent asthma attacks, wheezing, chest tightness or shortness of breath, rather than to relieve them.
- illness: Longitudinal studies demonstrate that maternal smoking is associated with an increased incidence of wheezing illness, particularly at younger ages.
- noise: A strange wheezing noise was heard near the window end of the room, rather like someone struggling for breath.
- attack: Incidence is also used to describe the frequency of events such as wheezing attacks and hospital admissions.
- sound: Once a child does sleep alone, caregivers should hear no snoring or other wheezing sounds at night.
Converse of object
- have: A year or two ago many well known lenders had a nice little wheeze going.
Adjective modifier
- jolly: If writing games is such a jolly wheeze why is playing them so moronic?
- wizard: Rob and John, for example, are planning the wizard wheeze of jumping from the roof of London's Park Lane Hilton.
- recurrent: Recurrent wheeze is often interpreted as asthma, but asthma is by no means the only cause of wheeze.
- clever: It may seem to be an awfully clever wheeze to some Whitehall spin doctor to " bury bad news " in this way.
- late: His latest wheeze is to turn his police officers into bounty hunters by awarding them " points for pulls " .
- good: However it did give rise to a rather good wheeze.
Modifying Another Word
- ever: Studies investigating the introduction of solids in relation to ever wheezing came to conflicting results.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- up: The poor sandpiper cannot pipe He's all wheezed up and croaked He's swallowed so much sand His blinking carburetors choked!
Used with why or when
- when: He wheezed when he walked, and spluttered food when he talked.
Preposition: in
- month: About a fifth of informants reported having wheezed in the last twelve months.
- child: Wheezing in children is most often caused by colds rather than by asthma.
- childhood: This might help to explain the link between RSV bronchiolitis and wheezing in later childhood.
Preposition: with
- breathlessness: In this age group, young enough to make the diagnosis of COPD unlikely, the principal cause of wheeze with breathlessness is asthma.
Browse dictionary entries near wheeze
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- wheelwork
- wheels
- wheelman
- Wheeling
- wheelie
- wheelhouse
- wheeler-dealer
- wheeler
- wheezy
- whelk
- whelm
- whelp
- when
- when distributed
- when-issued
- whenas
- whence
- whencesoever
