wheeze
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Synonyms: wheezy, cheeze, heeze, weeze, pheeze, wheee
Antonyms: wheezy, cheeze, heeze, weeze, pheeze, wheee
Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.
Verb
- To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
- {{lb|en|slang}} To [[convulse]] with laughter; to become [[breathless]] due to intense laughing.
- To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
Noun
- A [[piping]] or [[whistling]] [[sound]] caused by difficult [[respiration]].
- An ordinary [[whisper]] [[exaggerate]]d so as to produce the [[hoarse]] sound known as the "[[stage whisper]]"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
- {{lb|en|British|Irish|informal}} An [[ulterior]] [[scheme]] or [[plan]].
- {{lb|en|slang}} Something very [[humorous]] or [[laughable]].
- A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
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