Found 3 items, similar to wheeze.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: wheeze
berdesah, desah, gelegak, tersengal-sengal
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: wheeze
wheeze
n 1: breathing with a husky or whistling sound
2: (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick;
“a clever
wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German
espionage threat”
v : breathe with difficulty
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Wheeze
Wheeze
\Wheeze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Wheezed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wheezing.] [OE. whesen, AS. hw[=e]san (cf. Icel. hv[ae]sa
to hiss, Sw. hv["a]sa, Dan. hv[ae]se); akin to AS. hw[=o]sta
a cough, D. hoest, G. husten, OHG. huosto, Icel. h[=o]sti,
Lith. kosti to cough, Skr. k[=a]s. [root]43. Cf.
Husky
hoarse.]
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling
sound, as persons affected with asthma.
“Wheezing lungs.”
--Shak.
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Wheeze
\Wheeze\, n.
1. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult
respiration.
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2. (Phon.) 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.
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