Definition of "wheeze" in English

verb

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.

2. (slang) To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing.

3. To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.

noun

1. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

2. An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.

3. (British, Ireland, informal) An ulterior scheme or plan.

4. (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.

   • The new comedy is a wheeze.
   • You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze!

5. A sound that resembles a human wheezing.