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to wheeze
01
to breathe with difficulty, especially with a whistling or rattling sound
Intransitive
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
wheeze
3rd person singular
wheezes
Present participle
wheezing
Past simple
wheezed
Past participle
wheezed
Examples
The child 's asthma caused him to wheeze audibly during a respiratory episode.
Wheeze
01
breathing with a husky or whistling sound
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
wheezes
02
(Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
Lexical Tree
wheezing
wheeze
