Wheeze
English Meaning
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
- To breathe with difficulty, producing a hoarse whistling sound.
- To make a sound resembling laborious breathing.
- To produce or utter with a hoarse whistling sound: The old locomotive wheezed steam.
- A wheezing sound.
- Informal An old joke.