wheezeverb [ I ]
uk/wiːz/us/wiːz/to make a high, rough noise while breathing because of some breathing difficulty:
I could hear the old man behind me wheezing.
I know when I've been smoking too much because I start to wheeze when I run for a train.
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Noises made by the body
- belch
- blow
- break
- break wind idiom
- burp
- clear
- cough
- fart
- footfall
- footstep
- grumble
- hiccup
- sneeze
- snore
- snort
- wind 1
- yawn
wheezy
adjective uk/ˈwiː.zi/us/ˈwiː.zi/
He took a few wheezy breaths.
wheezenoun [ C ]
uk/wiːz/us/wiːz/wheeze noun [ C ] (BREATH)
a high, rough noise made when someone cannot breathe easily:
The cough, wheeze, and shortness of breath are things that go with smoking, not with age.
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Noises made by the body
- belch
- blow
- break
- break wind idiom
- burp
- clear
- cough
- fart
- footfall
- footstep
- grumble
- hiccup
- sneeze
- snore
- snort
- wind 1
- yawn
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Respiratory disorders
wheeze noun [ C ] (PLAN)
UK old-fashioned informal a clever and often unusual idea or plan, especially one that is intended to achieve a profit or some other advantage:
As a part of their latest marketing wheeze they're giving away tickets for the concert.
So the public actually pay to feed the animals in the zoo? That seems like a good wheeze.
I've had a wheeze - why don't we put both kids in the small room and that will leave the back room free.
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Plotting & trapping
- be in league with sb idiom
- cahoots
- catch sb out
- chicanery
- cloak-and-dagger
- conspiratorial
- conspire
- entrap
- entrapment
- hatch
- have a card up your sleeve idiom
- plot
- plotter
- pretext
- put-up job
- scheme
- set-up
- snare
- sting
- trap
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