wheeze

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 wēz

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
  2. An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
  3. An ulterior scheme or plan. Ireland,UK,informal
    — Didn’t catch me napping that wheeze.
  4. Something very humorous or laughable. slang
    — The new comedy is a wheeze.
  5. A sound that resembles a human wheezing.
    — At the same time I felt them fall over my brows — time to get a cut — the engine gave a final wheeze and died.
动词 v.
  1. To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
    — If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.
  2. To convulse with laughter; to become breathless due to intense laughing. slang
    — Mrs. Hearty began to shake and wheeze with laughter, and Millie stood looking at Bindle.
  3. To make a sound that resembles the sound of human wheezing.
    — "Even the fish know it; they don't rise to the bait any more and the birds are scared - hear how they wheeze and cry as they seek the land."

词形变化

wheezes present,singular,third-person wheezing participle,present wheezed participle,past wheezed past wheezes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
wheeze rate

词源

词源 1
From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).
词源 2
From Middle English whesen, perhaps from Old Norse hvæsa (“to hiss”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwes- (“to pant”).
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