wheezed

Verb

wheeze (third-person singular simple present wheezes, present participle wheezing, simple past and past participle wheezed)

1. To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
   • If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)
2. (slang) To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.
   • Mrs. Hearty began to shake and wheeze with laughter, and Millie stood looking at Bindle.1932, Herbert George Jenkins, Bindle Omnibus, page 408
3. To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
   • "Even the fish know it; they don't rise to the bait any more and the birds are scared - hear how they wheeze and cry as they seek the land."1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 184

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