WHEEZE meaning: Breathing with a high-pitched sound

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word wheeze:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

wheeze: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wheeze: Merriam-Webster
wheeze: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
wheeze: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
wheeze: Collins English Dictionary
wheeze: Vocabulary.com
Wheeze, wheeze: Wordnik
wheeze: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
wheeze: Wiktionary
wheeze: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
wheeze: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
wheeze: Infoplease Dictionary
wheeze: Dictionary.com
wheeze (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
wheeze: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Wheeze: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Wheeze: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
wheeze: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
wheeze: Rhymezone
Wheeze: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
wheeze: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
wheeze: FreeDictionary.org
wheeze: Mnemonic Dictionary
wheeze: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)

wheeze: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
wheeze: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

wheeze: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

wheeze, wheeze: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
wheeze: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
▸ verb:  (slang) To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.
▸ verb:  To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
▸ noun:  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:  (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.
▸ noun:  (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
▸ noun:  A sound that resembles a human wheezing.

Similar:

laugh, jest, jape, gag, joke, yak, whee, whuff, whiff, wheeple, more...

Opposite:

sniffle, snort

Types:

asthmatic, wheezy, respiratory, more...

Phrases:

relative of a wheeze, wheeze in pain, more...

Adjectives:

expiratory, old, asthmatic, audible, persistent, faint, slight, good, long, pitched, recurrent

Colors:

gray, silver, charcoal, smoke, pewter, more...