Adjacent Words

Wheezing definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WHEEZING, ppr. Breathing with difficulty and noise.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: relating to breathing with a whistling sound [syn: asthmatic, wheezing, wheezy]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wheeze Wheeze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wheezed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wheezing.] [OE. whesen, AS. hw?san (cf. Icel. hv[ae]sa to hiss, Sw. hv["a]sa, Dan. hv[ae]se); akin to AS. hw?sta a cough, D. hoest, G. husten, OHG. huosto, Icel. h?sti, Lith. kosti to cough, Skr. k?s. [root]43. Cf. Husky hoarse.] To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma. ``Wheezing lungs.'' --Shak.

Moby Thesaurus

asthmatic, breathing, breathless, effervescent, errhine, expiratory, fizzling, heaving, hissing, huffing, hushing, inspiratory, nasal, out of breath, panting, pneumonic, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, respiratory, rhinal, short-breathed, short-winded, sibilant, sissing, sizzling, sneezy, sniffing, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, sternutatory, stertorous, wheezy, winded