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. — deniko

    ruУ Тома одышка. — shanghainese

    deTom keucht. — al_ex_an_der

  2. Tom was wheezing.

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

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

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

    deMaria lief wie eine junge Gazelle; Tom hechelte hinterher. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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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