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▪ I. wheezing, vbl. n.|ˈhwiːzɪŋ| [f. wheeze v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb wheeze.
1538Elyot Addit., Asthma..a sycknesse, where one maye not fetche his wynde but with moche difficultie, with weasynge [1565 Cooper wheesing] of the breast. 1576[T. Twyne] Schoolem. i. xxviii. D iij b, Cresses..clense the Lunges, and take away the wheesing. 1683Tryon Way to Health 178 Coughs, Wheesings, Shortness of Breath. 1758Phil. Trans. L. 572 She had a frequent and severe cough, with great shortness of breath and a wheezing. 1848Dickens Dombey xxvi, The Major..fell into a fit of wheezing. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 283 In the treatment of the attacks of wheezing, so often met with in emphysema. transf.1862Smiles Engineers III. 9 The working of a Newcomen engine is..accompanied by an extraordinary amount of wheezing, sighing, creaking, and bumping. ▪ II. wheezing, ppl. a.|ˈhwiːzɪŋ| [f. wheeze v. + -ing2.] That wheezes; characterized by wheezing.
1560Googe tr. Palingenius' Zodiac iii. (1561) F iv, Heare soundes with wheasyng noyse, The boxen shalme. 16..Middleton, etc. Old Law ii. ii, A cough o' the lungs, or say a wheezing matter. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 745 The wheasing Swine With Coughs is choak'd. 1730Swift Panegyr. Dean 278 Wheezing asthma, loth to stir. 1874L. Carr Judith Gwynne i, The..dismal droning of the wheezing old organ. 1905Treves Other Side Lant. ii. xii. 90, I entered the hallowed town in a wheezing carriage. Hence ˈwheezingly adv.
1886Homilet. Rev. (U.S.) Nov. 412 Wheezingly saying to himself in secret, ‘Soul, be of good cheer’. 1895Zangwill Master ii. ix. 233 He laughed wheezingly. |