Wheezing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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[aum]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 asthma. "Wheezing lungs."
     --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "wheezing":
     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