Crossword clues for wheezing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wheeze \Wheeze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wheezed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wheezing.] [OE. whesen, AS. hw[=e]san (cf. Icel. hv[ae]sa to hiss, Sw. hv["a]sa, Dan. hv[ae]se); akin to AS. hw[=o]sta a cough, D. hoest, G. husten, OHG. huosto, Icel. h[=o]sti, Lith. kosti to cough, Skr. k[=a]s. [root]43. Cf. Husky hoarse.] To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthm
``Wheezing lungs.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. The quality or symptom of breathing with an audible wheeze vb. (present participle of wheeze English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "wheezing".
Hal Samdu, cool, composed Jay Kalam, wheezing, groaning Giles Habibula.
His fishy eyes rolled fearfully and his wheezing voice was hoarse with a desperate appeal.
He scrambled out of the capsule, puffing and wheezing even in the low-G field, and came rolling to meet me.
Ohotolarix was hauling himself up, wheezing and snarling as he clutched at his ribs.
He prepared to vault from Saddlesore, but in the second before he leaped, the steed abruptly and astonishingly stopped in its tracks, wheezing in great gasps.
The former bower lad dangled like a hooked fish, huffing and wheezing and bleeding.
We run up two flights, and Bill is wheezing and spluttering behind me as we start up the next.
I stumble to a wheezing halt and fall against the nearest wall, coughing up bile.
He shook his head, leaning on his ax and panting like a great wheezing bellows for a second.
Closer still, and he could see the streaks of foam on the necks and flanks of their horses, hear the wheezing bellows panting.
Then one night at the end of winter he began coughing and wheezing like a demented terrier pup.
By the time they found a house with the oval lamp lit outside, the boy was wheezing so hard that Caroline was half insane, her hands trembling with the urge to rip his little throat open and give him some air.
The pair of them convulse with laughter, wheezing and spluttering, their lips agleam with alcohol.
He ran as fast as he could, crouching, wheezing now, the weight of Ebert almost too much for him.
By nine thirty they had still only reached Slough and the vehicle was wheezing more with every mile.