wheeze

Meaning

Verb

1. To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
2. (slang) To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.
3. To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.

Noun

1. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
2. An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
3. (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.
4. (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
5. A sound that resembles a human wheezing.

Synonyms

gasp

pant

snort

whistle

squeal

sizzle

sibilate

breathe

groan

sputter

grating

hacking

harsh

hoarse

jugglery

out of breath

palpitate

peep

pipe

play

rasp

rattle

snore

snoring

snuffle

stertor

stridor

stunt

subterfuge

thaumaturgy

twist

wheeziness

wheezing

wile

puff and blow

breathe hard

wind-broken

artifice

coughing

boil

breathless

chirk

conjuration

cough

creak

croak

croaking

dodge

Translations

keuchen

ansimare

respirer bruyamment

jadeo

siffler

anelare

respiração ruidosa

hijgen

anhelar

λαχανιάζω

rantolare

rantolo

λαχάνιασμα

mop

🤣

schnaufen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʍiːz/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: whesen

In summary

From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).