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Wheezy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Given to wheezing.

adj. Producing a wheezing sound.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. That wheezes.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Affected with or characterized by wheezing.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having a tone of a reed instrument

adj. relating to breathing with a whistling sound

Word Usage

"Only once, while Merton was doing some of his best acting, had there been a kind of wheezy tittering from certain members of the cast and the group about the cameras."

Equivalent

noisy unhealthy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

phthisicky

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

raspy throaty deep-throated phlegmy half-suppressed tinny deadspeak gravelly asthmatic whispery