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# wheeze

«wheeze» in Mova's school dictionary: **to breathe with a whistling or rattling sound in your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (wheeze, wheezes, wheezed, wheezing); noun (a wheeze, wheezes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To wheeze is to breathe with a whistling or rattling sound in your chest, because breathing is hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheeze/#m1)

2) A wheeze is that sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheeze/#m2)

3) In old British talk, a wheeze is a clever trick or plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheeze/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In health and safety lessons, wheezing can be a sign of asthma or a chest illness; a child who wheezes may need their inhaler and should tell an adult. In stories, an old machine or person wheezes. Phrases: «start to wheeze», «a wheezy chest», «wheeze and cough».

### examples

- My sister wheezes when she has an asthma attack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheeze/#x1)
- He used his inhaler when he started to wheeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheeze/#x2)
- The old bus wheezed up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheeze/#x3)
- I heard a wheeze in Grandpa's chest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheeze/#x4)
- If a friend is wheezing badly, get an adult quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheeze/#x5)
- Running in the cold air made me wheeze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheeze/#x6)

### note

Regular verb: wheezed, wheezing (drop the e). Adjective: «wheezy». Wheezing is a sign, not the illness itself; serious wheezing needs help fast.

### In the corpora

- [A stethoscope lets the doctor hear the heart and lungs, and wheezes or crackles can be signs of illness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/25-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wheeze» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wheeze/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.