wheeze

4 definitions • 7 examples

to make a high, rough noise while breathing because of some breathing difficulty:

I could hear the old man behind me wheezing.

I know when I've been smoking too much because I start to wheeze when I run for a train.

a high, rough noise made when someone cannot breathe easily:

The cough, wheeze, and shortness of breath are things that go with smoking, not with age.

a clever and often unusual idea or plan, especially one that is intended to achieve a profit or some other advantage:

As a part of their latest marketing wheeze they're giving away tickets for the concert.

So the public actually pay to feed the animals in the zoo? That seems like a good wheeze.

I've had a wheeze - why don't we put both kids in the small room and that will leave the back room free.

to make a noise while breathing because of some breathing difficulty:

Since I started exercising regularly, I no longer wheeze when I run for a train.