Word Finder - wheeze

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A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

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An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.

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(British, Irish) An ulterior scheme or plan

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Something very humorous or laughable.

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The new comedy is a wheeze.

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To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

Walking up hill made him wheeze.

The old dog would wheeze after running.

The steam engine made a sound like a person's breathe when they wheeze.

My mother's asthma makes her wheeze.

I could not hear anything except when he would wheeze when he would breathe.

Her voice was horse and he would wheeze when he exhaled.

He would still wheeze even though he had cough syrup.

The teacher didn't want him to wheeze, so he didn't have to participate in the exercise.

His chest cold had made him wheeze when he tried to inhale.

A year or two ago many well known lenders had a nice little wheeze going.

However it did give rise to a rather good wheeze.

Rob and John, for example, are planning the wizard wheeze of jumping from the roof of London 's Park Lane Hilton.

Recurrent wheeze is often interpreted as asthma, but asthma is by no means the only cause of wheeze.

His latest wheeze is to turn his police officers into bounty hunters by awarding them " points for pulls ".

In this age group, young enough to make the diagnosis of COPD unlikely, the principal cause of wheeze with breathlessness is asthma.

What do parents of wheezy children understand by ' wheeze '?

He was enthusiastically talking up DEFRA 's latest wizard wheeze - 'Fresh Start ', which was launched at the Smithfield Show.

The athlete took medication so that he would not wheeze.

The opposite may also be true as children who eat more fast food are more likely to wheeze.

She is a Respiratory Pediatrician with a special interest in asthma particularly pre-school wheeze, non-CF bronchiectasis and congenital lung abnormalities.

If writing games is such a jolly wheeze why is playing them so moronic?

Rob and John, for example, are planning the wizard wheeze of jumping from the roof of London's Park Lane Hilton.

It may seem to be an awfully clever wheeze to some Whitehall spin doctor to " bury bad news " in this way.

His latest wheeze is to turn his police officers into bounty hunters by awarding them " points for pulls " .

The production of purulent sputum and the presence of wheeze may also indicate underlying lung disease.

As a result of the narrowed airways, the individual may cough, wheeze, feel short of breath, or make a high-pitched, harsh sound (called stridor) with each breath.

In this show, Frosty shows up in a small town where a local businessman has created a spray called "Summer Wheeze" that dissolves snow.