Usually means: Breathing with a high-pitched sound.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word wheezing:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. wheezing: Merriam-Webster
  2. wheezing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wheezing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Wheezing, wheezing: Wordnik
  5. wheezing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wheezing: Wiktionary
  7. wheezing: Dictionary.com
  8. wheezing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Wheezing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Wheezing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. wheezing: Rhymezone
  12. Wheezing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. wheezing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. wheezing: FreeDictionary.org
  15. wheezing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. wheezing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. wheezing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Wheezing: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Wheezing: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Wheezing: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  7. wheezing: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  8. wheezing: Medical dictionary
  9. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  10. Wheezing: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wheezing)

▸ noun:  The quality or symptom of breathing with an audible wheeze

Similar:
wheezy, unhealthy, asthmatic, wheezer, sibilant rhonchus, whisperingness, whuff, whizzing, whistling, whiffling, more...

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wheezing breath, more...

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expiratory, recurrent, asthmatic, audible, persistent, mild, severe, loud, diffuse, episodic, acute

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Similar:
wheezy, unhealthy, asthmatic, wheezer, sibilant rhonchus, whisperingness, whuff, whizzing, whistling, whiffling, more...

Types:
monophonic, polyphonic, symphonic, more...

Phrases:
wheezing breath, more...

Adjectives:
expiratory, recurrent, asthmatic, audible, persistent, mild, severe, loud, diffuse, episodic, acute

Colors:
    gray,     pale blue,     sickly green,     muted brown,     smoky black, more...



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