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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Wheeze

/wēz/ · IPA /ʍiːz/
01 v. i. To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
imp. & p. p. Wheezed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wheezing
  1. 1.
    To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
02 n. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
  1. 1.
    A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
  2. 2.
    An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the “stage whisper.” It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.(Phon.)