Meaning

5 senses
  1. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

    Keuchen, Schnaufen, Röcheln

    хрипxrip, хрипе́ниеxripénije, сипениеsipenije

    breathing with a husky or whistling sound

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

    сценический шёпотsceničeskij šópot

  3. (Ireland, UK, informal)An ulterior scheme or plan.

  4. (slang)Something very humorous or laughable.

    The new comedy is a wheeze.

    You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze!

  5. A sound that resembles a human wheezing.

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Tom is wheezing.

    Том хрипить.

    ruУ Тома одышка.

    deTom keucht.

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  2. Tom was wheezing.

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  3. Stuck without an inhaler, the only thing he could do was wheeze.

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  4. Some people cough, wheeze or feel out of breath during or after exercise.

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  5. Mary ran like a young gazelle; Tom went panting and wheezing in her wake.

    deMaria lief wie eine junge Gazelle; Tom hechelte hinterher.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration:
exaggerated whisper:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration:

Origin

From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Prot

From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).

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Forms

plural: wheezes
Singularwheeze
Pluralwheezes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words
Relatedwheezy

See also

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