verb, noun
verb to breathe noisily and with difficulty:
[V] He was coughing and wheezing all night. * [Vspeech] 'I have a chest infection,' she wheezed.
noun [usuallysing.]
1 the high whistling sound that your chest makes when you cannot breathe easily
2 (old-fashioned, BrE, informal) a clever trick or plan:
He came up with a clever wheeze.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for wheeze is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does wheeze appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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