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Definition of wheeze verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

wheeze

verb

NAmE//wiz//

[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they wheeze

he / she / it wheezes

past simple wheezed

-ing form wheezing

to breathe noisily and with difficulty He was coughing and wheezing all night. + speech “I have a chest infection,” she wheezed.

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