wheeze

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.