wheeze
/wiz/
noun
- A rough, whistling sound made when breathing, often due to illness or exertion.
- After the long hike, I could hear a slight wheeze every time I exhaled.
- The wheeze from the sleeping dog was so loud it woke me up.
- The doctor listened to the wheeze in the patient's chest with a stethoscope.
- A clever or funny idea, joke, or trick (informal, especially British English).
- They thought it was a great wheeze to hide the teacher's chalk, but he was not amused.
- My uncle is always full of old wheezes and silly puns at family dinners.
- The comedian's best wheeze involved a rubber chicken and a whoopee cushion.
verb
- To breathe with a rough, whistling sound, usually because of a blocked airway or illness.
- The old man would wheeze after climbing just one flight of stairs.
- My cat started to wheeze loudly during the night, so I took her to the vet.
- He tried to run, but his asthma made him wheeze with every step.
- To make a sound like a person wheezing, often from a machine or object.
- The car's engine would wheeze and sputter before finally starting.
- The old radiator began to wheeze as steam pushed through the pipes.
- The accordion wheezed out a sad melody in the street performer's hands.