What does "wheeze" mean?

A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

Wheeze

Common synonyms include: antic, aqua lung, aqua-lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, assibilate.

//ʍiːz// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Noun

1
A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
2
breathing with a husky or whistling sound wordnet
3
An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
4
(Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick wordnet
5
An ulterior scheme or plan. British, Ireland, informal
"Didn’t catch me napping that wheeze."

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6
Something very humorous or laughable. slang
"The new comedy is a wheeze."
7
A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
"At the same time I felt them fall over my brows — time to get a cut — the engine gave a final wheeze and died."

Verb

1
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
"If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed."
2
breathe with difficulty wordnet
3
To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing. slang
"Mrs. Hearty began to shake and wheeze with laughter, and Millie stood looking at Bindle."
4
To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
""Even the fish know it; they don't rise to the bait any more and the birds are scared - hear how they wheeze and cry as they seek the land.""