Dictionary Entry
wheeze
wheeze is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 20 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
- 2noun
A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
- 3noun
An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper." It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
- 4noun
breathing with a husky or whistling sound
- 5noun
(Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
"a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat"
- 6verb
breathe with difficulty
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