I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His asthma was acting up and he wheezed throughout the show.
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People with asthma may start to wheeze .
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When she coughed she made a terrible wheezing sound.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a 13-month stint, the wheezing and frail Chernenko died in March 1985 at age 73.
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After all, just fifteen years ago, most analysts thought Disney was a tired, wheezing firm.
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He was stocky and wheezed a little.
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I wheezed at them, and they nodded.
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The ragged figure shook with fury, his breath wheezing in and out of his tiny frame.
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The scarves sag, the whistles wheeze , one last outsize banana droops.
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There was fluid in my lungs, rattling and wheezing at every breath.
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Thought of fat Goldberg shuffling round the glass in the little room, rubbing his unshaven cheeks, wheezing.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He reminded Harry, in his build, expression and asthmatic wheeze , of a bulldog peering ill-humouredly from his kennel.
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Juvenile has a shrill persistent wheeze .
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The wheeze was simple: to change their shape from square to round.
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We hope that woodworkers of all types will send in their wheezes, as readers are always asking for more tips.