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wheezing

/weez, hweez/US // wiz, ʰwiz //UK // (wiːz) //

喘息,喘息声,喘气,喘气声

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    wheezed, wheez·ing.

    • : to breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound: Asthma caused him to wheeze.
    • : to make a sound resembling difficult breathing: The old locomotive wheezed into the station.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wheezing breath or sound.
    • : an old and frequently used joke, saying, story, etc.

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Examples

  • Some 41 percent of allergy-free and wheeze-free children had grown up in such allergen and bacteria-rich homes.

  • Many sniffle and wheeze antidotes are in the list of the 100 most frequently prescribed medications in 2013.

  • She was so weak in the chest you could hear her wheeze as far as you could see her.

  • Landry disappeared behind the curtains and in a moment Fred heard the wheeze of an atomizer.

  • There is every variety of this music, from the low wheeze of the asthmatic, to the stentorian grunt of the corpulent and profound.

  • I jumped him three times before I could get a fair shot at him, and could hear him wheeze every time I came near him.

  • I plainly heard the wheeze of blood in its throat, and the sound, like a death-rattle, affected me powerfully.