heeze

/hiz/
verb
  1. To breathe with a hoarse or wheezing sound, especially due to illness or exertion.
    • She could heeze from the asthma attack and reached for her inhaler.
    • The old dog would heeze softly in its sleep.
    • After running up the stairs, he began to heeze and had to sit down.
noun
  1. A hoarse or wheezing breath sound.
    • The doctor listened to the heeze in the patient's chest.
    • The heeze of the steam engine could be heard from down the street.
    • A loud heeze escaped him as he lifted the heavy box.