Definitions
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- noun The quality or symptom of breathing with an audible
wheeze - verb Present participle of
wheeze .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to breathing with a whistling sound
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Examples
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I wedge a pillow behind her and she eases back, wheezing from the effort.
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It was the best I'd felt all day, and I was wheezing from the ouch of it all.
Rockin' good times at the ER moriarty6 2006
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"Who -- me?" called a wheezing voice right in his ear.
The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales Arthur Scott Bailey 1913
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Experiencing respiratory symptoms with the allergy, however — such as wheezing or runny nose — strongly predicts the likelihood that the allergy will persist considerably longer into childhood.
Archive 2006-11-01 Steve Carper 2006
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Experiencing respiratory symptoms with the allergy, however — such as wheezing or runny nose — strongly predicts the likelihood that the allergy will persist considerably longer into childhood.
Respiratory Symptoms Mean Cow's Milk Allergy Lasts Longer in Children Steve Carper 2006
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One is the perceived lack of control over one's environment that mold can create and the other is mold-related health problems such as wheezing, fatigue and colds.
Mold and Moods 2007
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Probably "wheezing" but where do they hire these people???
bettyalready Diary Entry bettyalready 2005
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He sighed, the kind of wheezing noise a leather pillow sometimes makes when one sits on it.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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I wonder whether this was only a coincidence or did that firearm, when used, emit a kind of wheezing sound?
Cranberry Jello Tarassuk, Leonid 1978
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The Dobermans would anonymously announce the attack with their rapid quiet padding of paws and a perverse kind of wheezing; but by then it was too late.
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