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 →

2) A wheeze is that sound. tree →

3) In old British talk, a wheeze is a clever trick or plan. tree →

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 →
• He used his inhaler when he started to wheeze. tree →
• The old bus wheezed up the hill. tree →
• I heard a wheeze in Grandpa's chest. tree →
• If a friend is wheezing badly, get an adult quickly. tree →
• Running in the cold air made me wheeze. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wheeze» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.